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bpf: Fix kernel address leakage in atomic fetch
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The change in commit 37086bf ("bpf: Propagate stack bounds to registers
in atomics w/ BPF_FETCH") around check_mem_access() handling is buggy since
this would allow for unprivileged users to leak kernel pointers. For example,
an atomic fetch/and with -1 on a stack destination which holds a spilled
pointer will migrate the spilled register type into a scalar, which can then
be exported out of the program (since scalar != pointer) by dumping it into
a map value.

The original implementation of XADD was preventing this situation by using
a double call to check_mem_access() one with BPF_READ and a subsequent one
with BPF_WRITE, in both cases passing -1 as a placeholder value instead of
register as per XADD semantics since it didn't contain a value fetch. The
BPF_READ also included a check in check_stack_read_fixed_off() which rejects
the program if the stack slot is of __is_pointer_value() if dst_regno < 0.
The latter is to distinguish whether we're dealing with a regular stack spill/
fill or some arithmetical operation which is disallowed on non-scalars, see
also 6e7e63c ("bpf: Forbid XADD on spilled pointers for unprivileged
users") for more context on check_mem_access() and its handling of placeholder
value -1.

One minimally intrusive option to fix the leak is for the BPF_FETCH case to
initially check the BPF_READ case via check_mem_access() with -1 as register,
followed by the actual load case with non-negative load_reg to propagate
stack bounds to registers.

Fixes: 37086bf ("bpf: Propagate stack bounds to registers in atomics w/ BPF_FETCH")
Reported-by: <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Brendan Jackman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
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borkmann authored and Alexei Starovoitov committed Dec 15, 2021
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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions kernel/bpf/verifier.c
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Expand Up @@ -4584,13 +4584,19 @@ static int check_atomic(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int insn_idx, struct bpf_i
load_reg = -1;
}

/* check whether we can read the memory */
/* Check whether we can read the memory, with second call for fetch
* case to simulate the register fill.
*/
err = check_mem_access(env, insn_idx, insn->dst_reg, insn->off,
BPF_SIZE(insn->code), BPF_READ, load_reg, true);
BPF_SIZE(insn->code), BPF_READ, -1, true);
if (!err && load_reg >= 0)
err = check_mem_access(env, insn_idx, insn->dst_reg, insn->off,
BPF_SIZE(insn->code), BPF_READ, load_reg,
true);
if (err)
return err;

/* check whether we can write into the same memory */
/* Check whether we can write into the same memory. */
err = check_mem_access(env, insn_idx, insn->dst_reg, insn->off,
BPF_SIZE(insn->code), BPF_WRITE, -1, true);
if (err)
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