From: bestswngs@gmail.com
To: ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org,
eddyz87@gmail.com, memxor@gmail.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: martin.lau@linux.dev, song@kernel.org, yonghong.song@linux.dev,
jolsa@kernel.org, emil@etsalapatis.com, ihor.solodrai@linux.dev,
davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, hawk@kernel.org,
john.fastabend@gmail.com, sdf@fomichev.me, xmei5@asu.edu,
co+ac0a8c41de69121d@bugs.sh, Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf v2 1/2] bpf: reject dev-bound-only programs on other devices
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:00:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260919110053.497301-2-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260917161335.1020405-2-bestswngs@gmail.com>
From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
__bpf_offload_dev_match() falls back to comparing offdev pointers after an
exact netdev mismatch. Bound-only programs normally have NULL offdevs, so
unrelated netdevs compare equal. A bound-only program on an
offload-registered netdev can instead inherit a real offdev and match a
sibling port. With CAP_BPF and CAP_NET_ADMIN, a caller can use
bpf(BPF_LINK_CREATE) with a different target ifindex to run metadata kfuncs
specialized for the bound driver on the target driver's xdp_buff. Running a
veth-bound program on tun reads beyond tun's bare stack xdp_buff as a
veth_xdp_buff.
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]
RIP: 0010:veth_xdp_rx_timestamp (drivers/net/veth.c:1673)
Call Trace:
...
tun_build_skb (drivers/net/tun.c:1739)
tun_get_user (drivers/net/tun.c:1856)
tun_chr_write_iter (drivers/net/tun.c:2091)
vfs_write (fs/read_write.c:595 fs/read_write.c:687)
ksys_write (fs/read_write.c:739)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Restrict non-offloaded programs to exact netdev matches and retain the
shared-offdev fallback only for genuinely offloaded multi-port programs.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2b3486bc2d23 ("bpf: Introduce device-bound XDP programs")
Reported-by: <co+ac0a8c41de69121d@bugs.sh>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260917161335.1020405-2-bestswngs@gmail.com/
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Drop the redundant offdev NULL check.
- State the capability requirements instead of using attacker wording.
- Move the regression test to patch 2.
kernel/bpf/offload.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/offload.c b/kernel/bpf/offload.c
index 0d6f55695..d85539981 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/offload.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/offload.c
@@ -698,6 +698,8 @@ static bool __bpf_offload_dev_match(struct bpf_prog *prog,
return false;
if (offload->netdev == netdev)
return true;
+ if (!bpf_prog_is_offloaded(prog->aux))
+ return false;
ondev1 = bpf_offload_find_netdev(offload->netdev);
ondev2 = bpf_offload_find_netdev(netdev);
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-19 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-17 16:13 [PATCH bpf] bpf: reject dev-bound-only programs on other devices bestswngs
2026-09-17 17:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-09-17 17:32 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-19 11:01 ` Weiming Shi
2026-09-19 11:00 ` bestswngs [this message]
2026-09-19 11:00 ` [PATCH bpf v2 2/2] selftests: net: test cross-device XDP dev-bound attachment bestswngs
2026-09-19 11:03 ` [PATCH bpf v2 1/2] bpf: reject dev-bound-only programs on other devices Weiming Shi
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