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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] bpf: enable non-root eBPF programs
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:13:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006071347.GB14093@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56131B1F.80002@plumgrid.com>


* Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> wrote:

> On 10/5/15 3:14 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> >One scenario that comes to mind ... what happens when there are kernel
> >pointers stored in skb->cb[] (either from the current layer or an old
> >one from a different layer that the skb went through previously, but
> >which did not get overwritten)?
> >
> >Socket filters could read a portion of skb->cb[] also when unprived and
> >leak that out through maps. I think the verifier doesn't catch that,
> >right?
> 
> grrr. indeed. previous layer before sk_filter() can leave junk in there.

Could this be solved by activating zeroing/sanitizing of this data if there's an 
active BPF function around that can access that socket?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-06  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-05 20:48 [PATCH net-next 0/2] bpf: unprivileged Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-05 20:48 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] bpf: enable non-root eBPF programs Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-05 21:00   ` Kees Cook
2015-10-05 21:12     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-05 21:16       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-05 21:32         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-05 22:02       ` Kees Cook
2015-10-06  0:28         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-05 22:14   ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-06  0:51     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-06  7:13       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-10-06  8:05         ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-06  8:20           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-06  8:39             ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-06 17:50               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-06 17:56                 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-10-06 18:05                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-07  6:05                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-06 19:26                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-06 18:03                 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-06 12:45       ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-07 21:20         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-07 22:07           ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-07 22:22             ` Kees Cook
2015-10-07 23:49               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-08  6:21                 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-08  6:30                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-08 17:42                 ` Kees Cook
2015-10-08  2:29   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-05 20:48 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] bpf: charge user for creation of BPF maps and programs Alexei Starovoitov

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