From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: syzbot+a9ed3d9132939852d0df@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Subject: [PATCHv2 bpf] bpf: Check the helper function is valid in get_helper_proto
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:38:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250813133832.755428-1-jolsa@kernel.org> (raw)
From: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
syzbot reported an verifier bug [1] where the helper func pointer
could be NULL due to disabled config option.
As Alexei suggested we could check on that in get_helper_proto
directly. Excluding tail_call helper from the check, because it
is NULL by design and valid in all configs.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/68904050.050a0220.7f033.0001.GAE@google.com/
Reported-by: syzbot+a9ed3d9132939852d0df@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
---
v2 changes:
- set bpf_tail_call_proto.func to -1 so we can skip the extra check [Andrii]
kernel/bpf/core.c | 5 ++++-
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
index 5d1650af899d..0f6e9a3d9960 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -3024,7 +3024,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bpf_event_output);
/* Always built-in helper functions. */
const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_tail_call_proto = {
- .func = NULL,
+ /* func is unused for tail_call, we set it to pass the
+ * get_helper_proto check
+ */
+ .func = (void *) 1,
.gpl_only = false,
.ret_type = RET_VOID,
.arg1_type = ARG_PTR_TO_CTX,
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index c4f69a9e9af6..c89e2b1bc644 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -11354,7 +11354,7 @@ static int get_helper_proto(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int func_id,
return -EINVAL;
*ptr = env->ops->get_func_proto(func_id, env->prog);
- return *ptr ? 0 : -EINVAL;
+ return *ptr && (*ptr)->func ? 0 : -EINVAL;
}
static int check_helper_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn,
--
2.50.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-08-13 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-13 13:38 Jiri Olsa [this message]
2025-08-13 22:44 ` [PATCHv2 bpf] bpf: Check the helper function is valid in get_helper_proto Andrii Nakryiko
2025-08-14 7:29 ` Jiri Olsa
2025-08-14 13:53 ` Paul Chaignon
2025-08-14 14:18 ` Jiri Olsa
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