From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>,
Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
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Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
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Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>,
Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf v4 2/5] bpf: Fix NULL-ptr-deref when showing a void BTF type
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 18:47:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260901104924.346187-3-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260901104924.346187-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
btf_modifier_show() resolves the modifier and then calls
btf_type_ops(t)->show() unconditionally. For the void type (type_id 0,
BTF_KIND_UNKN) kind_ops[] has no entry, so ->show is NULL.
A "const void" (a modifier resolving to void) cannot be a map key or
value - map_check_btf() rejects it because void has no size - so the map
dump path does not reach it. But bpf_snprintf_btf() takes a type_id
straight from the BPF program, and passing such a "const void" from the
vmlinux BTF NULL-derefs:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]
RIP: 0010:btf_modifier_show (kernel/bpf/btf.c:2914)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
btf_type_show (kernel/bpf/btf.c:8251)
btf_type_snprintf_show (kernel/bpf/btf.c:8321)
bpf_snprintf_btf (kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1047)
bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp (net/bpf/test_run.c:829)
__sys_bpf (kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4804)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
</TASK>
Fall back to btf_df_show() when the resolved type has no show op; it
emits the "<unsupported kind:N>" placeholder already used for kinds like
FWD and FUNC. bpf_snprintf_btf() then returns the length as usual.
Fixes: c4d0bfb45068 ("bpf: Add bpf_snprintf_btf helper")
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
---
re bot+bpf-ci: a "const void" is a modifier with a nonzero type_id, so
map_check_btf() rejects it as key or value on the size check. The bare
void key (id 0) is a different path, handled by patch 1.
re sashiko-bot: btf_var_show() has the same bug, fixed in patch 3.
---
kernel/bpf/btf.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/btf.c b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
index 91b8ce77f699..7835fe201384 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/btf.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
@@ -2911,7 +2911,14 @@ static void btf_modifier_show(const struct btf *btf,
else
t = btf_type_skip_modifiers(btf, type_id, NULL);
- btf_type_ops(t)->show(btf, t, type_id, data, bits_offset, show);
+ /*
+ * A modifier can resolve to void, which has no show op; print a
+ * placeholder rather than dereferencing NULL.
+ */
+ if (!btf_type_ops(t))
+ btf_df_show(btf, t, type_id, data, bits_offset, show);
+ else
+ btf_type_ops(t)->show(btf, t, type_id, data, bits_offset, show);
}
static void btf_var_show(const struct btf *btf, const struct btf_type *t,
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-01 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-01 10:47 [PATCH bpf v4 0/5] bpf: Fix NULL-ptr-derefs when showing a void BTF type Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-01 10:47 ` [PATCH bpf v4 1/5] bpf: Reject key-less BTF for hash maps Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-01 10:47 ` Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2026-09-01 10:47 ` [PATCH bpf v4 3/5] bpf: Fix NULL-ptr-deref in btf_var_show() Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-01 10:47 ` [PATCH bpf v4 4/5] selftests/bpf: Add test for key-less BTF hash map Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-01 10:47 ` [PATCH bpf v4 5/5] selftests/bpf: Add test for showing a void BTF type Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-03 16:40 ` [PATCH bpf v4 0/5] bpf: Fix NULL-ptr-derefs when " patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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