From: Taegu Ha <hataegu0826@gmail.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Taegu Ha <hataegu0826@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf 1/1] bpf: reject overlarge global subprog argument sizes
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 14:25:39 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260527052539.3388700-2-hataegu0826@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260527052539.3388700-1-hataegu0826@gmail.com>
Global subprogram argument checking derives generic pointer sizes from BTF
and passes the resolved size to check_mem_reg() as a u32. The access-size
validation path then uses a signed int, and stack pointers negate the value
before calling check_helper_mem_access().
A BTF type such as int[0x3fffffff] resolves to 0xfffffffc bytes. On a stack
pointer, (int)mem_size becomes -4 and the negation validates only four
bytes. A caller can therefore pass a four-byte stack slot while the callee
is verified with a nearly 4GiB memory argument, allowing accesses outside
the caller object.
This was confirmed with a non-executing raw-BTF reproducer. On a
vulnerable kernel, the verifier accepted a program where the caller passed
a four-byte stack slot, while the callee argument was described by BTF as
int[0x3fffffff]. The verifier log showed:
R1=mem_or_null(id=1,sz=0xfffffffc)
r0 = *(u32 *)(r1 +4)
The program was only loaded to prove verifier acceptance and was not
attached or executed.
Reject sizes that cannot be represented by the signed verifier access-size
API before any conversion. Cast the non-stack case after the bound check to
make the conversion explicit, and add a verifier regression test for the
oversized BTF argument.
Fixes: 2cb27158adb3 ("bpf: poison dead stack slots")
Signed-off-by: Taegu Ha <hataegu0826@gmail.com>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 7 ++++++-
.../bpf/progs/verifier_global_subprogs.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 7fb88e1cd7c4..1007f204a1f5 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -7107,6 +7107,11 @@ static int check_mem_reg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_reg_state *reg
struct bpf_reg_state saved_reg;
int err;
+ if (mem_size > S32_MAX) {
+ verbose(env, "R%d memory size %u is too large\n", regno, mem_size);
+ return -EACCES;
+ }
+
if (bpf_register_is_null(reg))
return 0;
@@ -7119,7 +7124,7 @@ static int check_mem_reg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_reg_state *reg
mark_ptr_not_null_reg(reg);
}
- int size = base_type(reg->type) == PTR_TO_STACK ? -(int)mem_size : mem_size;
+ int size = base_type(reg->type) == PTR_TO_STACK ? -(int)mem_size : (int)mem_size;
err = check_helper_mem_access(env, regno, size, BPF_READ, true, NULL);
err = err ?: check_helper_mem_access(env, regno, size, BPF_WRITE, true, NULL);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_global_subprogs.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_global_subprogs.c
index 1e08aff7532e..0ff8f85b4d46 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_global_subprogs.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_global_subprogs.c
@@ -151,6 +151,23 @@ int anon_user_mem_valid(void *ctx)
return subprog_user_anon_mem(&t);
}
+__noinline __weak int subprog_user_anon_mem_huge(int (*p)[0x3fffffff])
+{
+ return p ? (*p)[1] : 0;
+}
+
+SEC("?tracepoint")
+__failure __log_level(2)
+__msg("R1 memory size 4294967292 is too large")
+int anon_user_mem_huge_size_invalid(void *ctx)
+{
+ int (*p)[0x3fffffff];
+ int tiny = 42;
+
+ p = (void *)&tiny;
+ return subprog_user_anon_mem_huge(p) + tiny;
+}
+
__noinline __weak int subprog_nonnull_ptr_good(int *p1 __arg_nonnull, int *p2 __arg_nonnull)
{
return (*p1) * (*p2); /* good, no need for NULL checks */
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-27 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-27 5:25 [PATCH bpf 0/1] bpf: reject overlarge global subprog argument sizes Taegu Ha
2026-05-27 5:25 ` Taegu Ha [this message]
2026-05-27 16:59 ` [PATCH bpf 1/1] " Yonghong Song
2026-05-27 17:48 ` 하태구
2026-05-27 17:53 ` 하태구
2026-05-28 5:03 ` Yonghong Song
2026-05-28 5:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Taegu Ha
2026-05-28 5:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Taegu Ha
2026-05-28 6:05 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-05-28 6:21 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3] " Taegu Ha
2026-05-28 15:17 ` Yonghong Song
2026-06-01 1:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-06-01 6:04 ` 하태구
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