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[bpf] bpf/verifier: disallow pointer subtraction

Message ID 20180912210610.829166-1-ast@kernel.org
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: BPF Maintainers
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Series [bpf] bpf/verifier: disallow pointer subtraction | expand

Commit Message

Alexei Starovoitov Sept. 12, 2018, 9:06 p.m. UTC
Subtraction of pointers was accidentally allowed for unpriv programs
by commit 82abbf8d2fc4. Revert that part of commit.

Fixes: 82abbf8d2fc4 ("bpf: do not allow root to mangle valid pointers")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Daniel Borkmann Sept. 12, 2018, 9:48 p.m. UTC | #1
On 09/12/2018 11:06 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> Subtraction of pointers was accidentally allowed for unpriv programs
> by commit 82abbf8d2fc4. Revert that part of commit.
> 
> Fixes: 82abbf8d2fc4 ("bpf: do not allow root to mangle valid pointers")
> Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Applied to bpf, thanks Alexei!
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Patch

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 92246117d2b0..bb07e74b34a2 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -3163,7 +3163,7 @@  static int adjust_reg_min_max_vals(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 				 * an arbitrary scalar. Disallow all math except
 				 * pointer subtraction
 				 */
-				if (opcode == BPF_SUB){
+				if (opcode == BPF_SUB && env->allow_ptr_leaks) {
 					mark_reg_unknown(env, regs, insn->dst_reg);
 					return 0;
 				}