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Commit 25907492 authored by Piotr Krysiuk's avatar Piotr Krysiuk Committed by Cheng Jian
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bpf: Prohibit alu ops for pointer types not defining ptr_limit


stable inclusion
from linux-4.19.182
commit bc49612a0e2c379a0d997375901c5371ba015518
CVE: CVE-2020-27170

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commit f232326f6966cf2a1d1db7bc917a4ce5f9f55f76 upstream.

The purpose of this patch is to streamline error propagation and in particular
to propagate retrieve_ptr_limit() errors for pointer types that are not defining
a ptr_limit such that register-based alu ops against these types can be rejected.

The main rationale is that a gap has been identified by Piotr in the existing
protection against speculatively out-of-bounds loads, for example, in case of
ctx pointers, unprivileged programs can still perform pointer arithmetic. This
can be abused to execute speculatively out-of-bounds loads without restrictions
and thus extract contents of kernel memory.

Fix this by rejecting unprivileged programs that attempt any pointer arithmetic
on unprotected pointer types. The two affected ones are pointer to ctx as well
as pointer to map. Field access to a modified ctx' pointer is rejected at a
later point in time in the verifier, and 7c696732 ("bpf: Permit map_ptr
arithmetic with opcode add and offset 0") only relevant for root-only use cases.
Risk of unprivileged program breakage is considered very low.

Fixes: 7c696732 ("bpf: Permit map_ptr arithmetic with opcode add and offset 0")
Fixes: b2157399 ("bpf: prevent out-of-bounds speculation")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPiotr Krysiuk <piotras@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarXiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJian Cheng <cj.chengjian@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCheng Jian <cj.chengjian@huawei.com>
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