Patch "bpf/verifier: Fix states_equal() comparison of pointer and UNKNOWN" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    bpf/verifier: Fix states_equal() comparison of pointer and UNKNOWN

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     bpf-verifier-fix-states_equal-comparison-of-pointer-and-unknown.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From ben@decadent.org.uk  Wed Dec 27 21:04:06 2017
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 02:26:17 +0000
Subject: bpf/verifier: Fix states_equal() comparison of pointer and UNKNOWN
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20171223022617.GO2971@decadent.org.uk>
Content-Disposition: inline

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

An UNKNOWN_VALUE is not supposed to be derived from a pointer, unless
pointer leaks are allowed.  Therefore, states_equal() must not treat
a state with a pointer in a register as "equal" to a state with an
UNKNOWN_VALUE in that register.

This was fixed differently upstream, but the code around here was
largely rewritten in 4.14 by commit f1174f77b50c "bpf/verifier: rework
value tracking".  The bug can be detected by the bpf/verifier sub-test
"pointer/scalar confusion in state equality check (way 1)".

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -2722,11 +2722,12 @@ static bool states_equal(struct bpf_veri
 
 		/* If we didn't map access then again we don't care about the
 		 * mismatched range values and it's ok if our old type was
-		 * UNKNOWN and we didn't go to a NOT_INIT'ed reg.
+		 * UNKNOWN and we didn't go to a NOT_INIT'ed or pointer reg.
 		 */
 		if (rold->type == NOT_INIT ||
 		    (!varlen_map_access && rold->type == UNKNOWN_VALUE &&
-		     rcur->type != NOT_INIT))
+		     rcur->type != NOT_INIT &&
+		     !__is_pointer_value(env->allow_ptr_leaks, rcur)))
 			continue;
 
 		/* Don't care about the reg->id in this case. */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@decadent.org.uk are

queue-4.9/bpf-verifier-fix-states_equal-comparison-of-pointer-and-unknown.patch