From: Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>,
Matt Mullins <mmullins@mmlx.us>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf v5 1/2] bpf: Reject negative const offsets for buffer pointers
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:38:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260714093846.18159-2-sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260714093846.18159-1-sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com>
The verifier rejects variable offsets for PTR_TO_TP_BUFFER and PTR_TO_BUF
accesses, but it currently accepts a constant negative offset produced by
pointer arithmetic.
Commit 022ac0750883 ("bpf: use reg->var_off instead of reg->off for
pointers") moved constant pointer offsets from reg->off to reg->var_off.
However, __check_buffer_access() continued to check only the instruction
offset. An access with reg->var_off equal to -8 and an instruction offset
of zero therefore passes verification.
For writable raw tracepoints, the access end is also calculated from the
unsigned reg->var_off.value. An eight-byte access starting at -8 wraps
the calculated end to zero, allowing the program to load and attach
without increasing max_tp_access.
After ensuring that reg->var_off is constant, calculate the effective
access start using signed arithmetic and reject it when it is negative.
Use the validated start to calculate the access end for both
PTR_TO_TP_BUFFER and PTR_TO_BUF.
Fixes: 022ac0750883 ("bpf: use reg->var_off instead of reg->off for pointers")
Acked-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.2.0
Signed-off-by: Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 6515d4d3c003..9f1333676365 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -5326,14 +5326,11 @@ static int check_max_stack_depth(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
static int __check_buffer_access(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
const char *buf_info,
const struct bpf_reg_state *reg,
- argno_t argno, int off, int size)
+ argno_t argno, int off, int size,
+ u32 *access_end)
{
- if (off < 0) {
- verbose(env,
- "%s invalid %s buffer access: off=%d, size=%d\n",
- reg_arg_name(env, argno), buf_info, off, size);
- return -EACCES;
- }
+ s64 start;
+
if (!tnum_is_const(reg->var_off)) {
char tn_buf[48];
@@ -5344,6 +5341,15 @@ static int __check_buffer_access(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
return -EACCES;
}
+ start = (s64)reg->var_off.value + off;
+ if (start < 0) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "%s invalid negative %s buffer offset: off=%d, var_off=%lld\n",
+ reg_arg_name(env, argno), buf_info, off, (s64)reg->var_off.value);
+ return -EACCES;
+ }
+
+ *access_end = start + size;
return 0;
}
@@ -5351,14 +5357,14 @@ static int check_tp_buffer_access(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
const struct bpf_reg_state *reg,
argno_t argno, int off, int size)
{
+ u32 access_end;
int err;
- err = __check_buffer_access(env, "tracepoint", reg, argno, off, size);
+ err = __check_buffer_access(env, "tracepoint", reg, argno, off, size, &access_end);
if (err)
return err;
- env->prog->aux->max_tp_access = max(reg->var_off.value + off + size,
- env->prog->aux->max_tp_access);
+ env->prog->aux->max_tp_access = max(access_end, env->prog->aux->max_tp_access);
return 0;
}
@@ -5370,13 +5376,14 @@ static int check_buffer_access(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
u32 *max_access)
{
const char *buf_info = type_is_rdonly_mem(reg->type) ? "rdonly" : "rdwr";
+ u32 access_end;
int err;
- err = __check_buffer_access(env, buf_info, reg, argno, off, size);
+ err = __check_buffer_access(env, buf_info, reg, argno, off, size, &access_end);
if (err)
return err;
- *max_access = max(reg->var_off.value + off + size, *max_access);
+ *max_access = max(access_end, *max_access);
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-14 9:39 UTC|newest]
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2026-07-14 9:38 [PATCH bpf v5 0/2] bpf: Reject negative const offsets for buffer pointers Sun Jian
2026-07-14 9:38 ` Sun Jian [this message]
2026-07-14 9:38 ` [PATCH bpf v5 2/2] selftests/bpf: Cover negative buffer pointer offsets Sun Jian
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