Re: [PATCH bpf v2 3/7] bpf, sockmap: zero-initialize pages allocated in bpf_msg_push_data

["Emil Tsalapatis" <emil@etsalapatis.com>]

On Thu Jun 11, 2026 at 8:34 AM EDT, Jiayuan Chen wrote:
> From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
>
> bpf_msg_push_data() allocates pages via alloc_pages() without
> __GFP_ZERO. In the non-copy path, the entire page of uninitialized
> heap content is added directly to the sk_msg scatterlist, which is
> then transmitted over TCP to userspace via tcp_bpf_push(). In the
> copy path, a gap of len bytes between the front and back memcpy
> regions is similarly left uninitialized.
>
> This leads to a kernel heap information leak: stale page content
> including kernel pointers from the direct-map and vmemmap regions
> is transmitted to userspace, which can be used to defeat KASLR.
>
> Add __GFP_ZERO to the alloc_pages() call to ensure the allocated
> page is always zeroed before it enters the scatterlist.
>

Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>

> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260424155913.A19FDC19425@smtp.kernel.org
> Fixes: 6fff607e2f14 ("bpf: sk_msg program helper bpf_msg_push_data")
> Tested-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
> Tested-by: Xinyu Ma <mmmxny@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
> Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
> Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
> ---
>  net/core/filter.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
> index 3e555f276ba80..6e345ca65ca14 100644
> --- a/net/core/filter.c
> +++ b/net/core/filter.c
> @@ -2832,7 +2832,7 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_push_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
>  	if (unlikely(copy + len < copy))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	page = alloc_pages(__GFP_NOWARN | GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_COMP,
> +	page = alloc_pages(__GFP_NOWARN | GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_ZERO,
>  			   get_order(copy + len));
>  	if (unlikely(!page))
>  		return -ENOMEM;