From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Rongguang Wei <clementwei90@163.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com, jasowangio@gmail.com,
andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
Rongguang Wei <weirongguang@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v7 1/2] tun: keep a kernel copy of the socket filter program
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:21:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.195229eab691d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261023092239.186665-2-clementwei90@163.com>
Rongguang Wei wrote:
> From: Rongguang Wei <weirongguang@kylinos.cn>
>
> TUNATTACHFILTER copies only the sock_fprog header, so tun->fprog.filter
> stays a pointer into the address space of the process that issued the
> ioctl. tun_attach() reads it again whenever a queue is attached to the
> persistent device later on.
>
> Rebuilding the filter from that pointer is not reliable. With the inverted
> check below, a failure of the attach was not fatal: -EFAULT for an unmapped
> address, -EINVAL for bytes that are not a valid classic BPF program, -EPERM
> for a locked filter and -ENOMEM all ended up in "err = 0" for a new tfile,
> so the queue was attached without a filter. And when the read succeeded,
> the early return meant the queue was never published at all.
>
> Keep the program in the kernel instead: tun->fprog_kern holds the
> instructions, and each queue gets its own program built from it with the
> new sk_attach_filter_kern(), the kernel memory counterpart of
> sk_attach_filter(). The copy is freed when the filter is detached or
> replaced and with the device, and tun->fprog is left untouched so
> TUNGETFILTER keeps its uapi behaviour.
>
> Also fix the inverted check, which made tun_attach() return early when
> sk_attach_filter_kern() succeeded instead of when it failed. Neither change
> works on its own: with only the kernel copy, every re-attach returns 0
> without publishing the queue; with only the check fixed, a re-attach that
> used to succeed without installing a filter would start to fail.
>
> sk_attach_filter_kern() builds the program with bpf_prog_create(), which
> does not keep an original program, so SO_GET_FILTER returns -EACCES and
> sock_diag omits the filter for sockets that use it. tun sockets are not
> exposed as file descriptors, so this is not user visible.
>
> The header and the instructions are checked in tun_copy_filter() before
> anything is replaced: a TUNATTACHFILTER that no verifier would accept now
> fails early and leaves the previously attached filter in place. The
> instructions are verified with the new bpf_prog_validate_classic(), which
> runs the same checks as bpf_prog_create() on the copied program. Before
> this series the check only happened per queue in tun_attach_filter(),
> which never ran when no queue was attached, so an invalid program could be
> stored; with the corrected error check, every later attach of such a
> program would then fail with -EINVAL.
>
> The inverted check was discovered by manual code inspection first, and the
> review of v1 reported the other things.
>
> Fixes: 54f968d6efdb ("tuntap: move socket to tun_file")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/179027275318.2160803.4185895144088175048@kernel.org/
> Signed-off-by: Rongguang Wei <weirongguang@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-23 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-23 9:22 [PATCH net v7 0/2] tun: fix re-attaching the socket filter Rongguang Wei
2026-10-23 9:22 ` [PATCH net v7 1/2] tun: keep a kernel copy of the socket filter program Rongguang Wei
2026-10-23 22:21 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-10-27 10:09 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-27 14:05 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-23 9:22 ` [PATCH net v7 2/2] selftests: net: add TAP socket filter attach tests Rongguang Wei
2026-10-23 22:22 ` Willem de Bruijn
2026-10-27 10:09 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
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