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From: Shuran Liu <electronlsr@gmail.com>
To: song@kernel.org, mattbobrowski@google.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org,
	martin.lau@linux.dev, eddyz87@gmail.com, yonghong.song@linux.dev,
	john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me,
	haoluo@google.com, jolsa@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	mhiramat@kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	electronlsr@gmail.com, Zesen Liu <ftyg@live.com>,
	Peili Gao <gplhust955@gmail.com>,
	Haoran Ni <haoran.ni.cs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: mark bpf_d_path() buffer as writeable
Date: Mon,  1 Dec 2025 22:38:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251201143813.5212-2-electronlsr@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251201143813.5212-1-electronlsr@gmail.com>

Commit 37cce22dbd51 ("bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type
tracking") started distinguishing read vs write accesses performed by
helpers.

The second argument of bpf_d_path() is a pointer to a buffer that the
helper fills with the resulting path. However, its prototype currently
uses ARG_PTR_TO_MEM without MEM_WRITE.

Before 37cce22dbd51, helper accesses were conservatively treated as
potential writes, so this mismatch did not cause issues. Since that
commit, the verifier may incorrectly assume that the buffer contents
are unchanged across the helper call and base its optimizations on this
wrong assumption. This can lead to misbehaviour in BPF programs that
read back the buffer, such as prefix comparisons on the returned path.

Fix this by marking the second argument of bpf_d_path() as
ARG_PTR_TO_MEM | MEM_WRITE so that the verifier correctly models the
write to the caller-provided buffer.

Fixes: 37cce22dbd51 ("bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type tracking")
Co-developed-by: Zesen Liu <ftyg@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Zesen Liu <ftyg@live.com>
Co-developed-by: Peili Gao <gplhust955@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peili Gao <gplhust955@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Haoran Ni <haoran.ni.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Haoran Ni <haoran.ni.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuran Liu <electronlsr@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index 4f87c16d915a..49e0bdaa7a1b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_d_path_proto = {
 	.ret_type	= RET_INTEGER,
 	.arg1_type	= ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID,
 	.arg1_btf_id	= &bpf_d_path_btf_ids[0],
-	.arg2_type	= ARG_PTR_TO_MEM,
+	.arg2_type	= ARG_PTR_TO_MEM | MEM_WRITE,
 	.arg3_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO,
 	.allowed	= bpf_d_path_allowed,
 };
-- 
2.52.0


  reply	other threads:[~2025-12-01 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-01 14:38 [PATCH bpf 0/2] bpf: fix bpf_d_path() helper prototype Shuran Liu
2025-12-01 14:38 ` Shuran Liu [this message]
2025-12-01 18:48   ` [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: mark bpf_d_path() buffer as writeable Matt Bobrowski
2025-12-01 14:38 ` [PATCH bpf 2/2] selftests/bpf: add regression test for bpf_d_path() Shuran Liu
2025-12-01 19:16   ` Matt Bobrowski
2025-12-01 19:22 ` [PATCH bpf 0/2] bpf: fix bpf_d_path() helper prototype Matt Bobrowski

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