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SubjectRe: [PATCH] bpf: explicitly memset the bpf_attr structure
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On 3/20/20 8:24 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 3/20/20 10:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> For the bpf syscall, we are relying on the compiler to properly zero out
>> the bpf_attr union that we copy userspace data into.  Unfortunately that
>> doesn't always work properly, padding and other oddities might not be
>> correctly zeroed, and in some tests odd things have been found when the
>> stack is pre-initialized to other values.
>>
>> Fix this by explicitly memsetting the structure to 0 before using it.
>>
>> Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
>> Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
>> Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
>> Reported-by: Alistair Delva <adelva@google.com>
>> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>> Link:
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__android-2Dreview.googlesource.com_c_kernel_common_-2B_1235490&d=DwIDaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=DA8e1B5r073vIqRrFz7MRA&m=Fz_Xc6psG64uMowK2qpH0gTLj0NQE7k1CTWb5fODVeg&s=WKW0vq8WBALfwsSq5xGGWwxuLWKfI0DNN9XVMc1DkcE&e=
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>> ---
>>   kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 3 ++-
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
>> index a91ad518c050..a4b1de8ea409 100644
>> --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
>> +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
>> @@ -3354,7 +3354,7 @@ static int bpf_map_do_batch(const union bpf_attr
>> *attr,
>>   SYSCALL_DEFINE3(bpf, int, cmd, union bpf_attr __user *, uattr,
>> unsigned int, size)
>>   {
>> -    union bpf_attr attr = {};
>> +    union bpf_attr attr;
>>       int err;
>>       if (sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>> @@ -3366,6 +3366,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(bpf, int, cmd, union bpf_attr
>> __user *, uattr, unsigned int, siz
>>       size = min_t(u32, size, sizeof(attr));
>>       /* copy attributes from user space, may be less than
>> sizeof(bpf_attr) */
>> +    memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr));
>
> Thanks for the fix, there are a few more of these places. We would also
> need
> to cover:
>
> - bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd()
> - bpf_map_get_info_by_fd()
> - btf_get_info_by_fd()

Not sure whether in these places existing approach will cause
kernel failure or not. They did not call CHECK_ATTR, e.g.,
for bpf_prog_info structure.

>
> Please add these as well to your fix.
>
>>       if (copy_from_user(&attr, uattr, size) != 0)
>>           return -EFAULT;
>>
>> base-commit: 6c90b86a745a446717fdf408c4a8a4631a5e8ee3
>>
>

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