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From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
To: <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@cloudflare.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	<yan@cloudflare.com>
Subject: Re: Unchecked sock pointer causes panic in RAW_TP
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:24:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250201002448.43472-1-kuniyu@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250131232851.36345-1-kuniyu@amazon.com>

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:28:51 -0800
> From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:38:38 -0800
> > From: Yan Zhai <yan@cloudflare.com>
> > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:32:57 -0800
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > We encountered a panic when tracing kfree_skb with RAW_TP. The problematic
> > > argument was introduced in commit ba8de796baf4 ("net: introduce
> > > sk_skb_reason_drop function"). It turns out that the verifier still accepted
> > > the program despite it didn't test sk == NULL. And this caused kernel panic. I
> > > attached a small reproducer and panic trace at the end. It's stably
> > > reproducible when packets are dropped without a receiver (e.g. run iperf2 UDP
> > > test toward localhost), in both 6.12.11 release and a recent bpf-next master
> > > snapshot (I was using commit c03320a6768c).
> > > 
> > > As a contrast, for another tracepoint like tcp_send_reset, if sk is not checked
> > > before dereferencing, the verifier will complain and reject the program as
> > > expected. So this feels like some annotation is missing? Appreciate if someone
> > > could help me figure out.
> > 
> > Maybe __nullable is missing given we annotated skb for tcp_send_reset ?
> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240911033719.91468-4-lulie@linux.alibaba.com/

Just for the record, I posted the fix:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250201001425.42377-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/T/#u

  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-01  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-31 20:32 Unchecked sock pointer causes panic in RAW_TP Yan Zhai
2025-01-31 22:38 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-01-31 23:28   ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-02-01  0:24     ` Kuniyuki Iwashima [this message]
2025-02-01  0:55       ` Yan Zhai

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