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ebpf: verifier: check that call reg with ARG_ANYTHING is initialized
authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:21:42 +0000 (17:21 +0100)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Sun, 17 May 2015 23:12:27 +0000 (19:12 -0400)
commitb6c65e367249dd9ddc28b4f49b171f6803d70266
tree8a9a621c8a6071653b5103012f6d9fd4ad33547b
parentfcea4d66b0d0660439f6a2eb5b3894d7ee5fd136
ebpf: verifier: check that call reg with ARG_ANYTHING is initialized

[ Upstream commit 80f1d68ccba70b1060c9c7360ca83da430f66bed ]

I noticed that a helper function with argument type ARG_ANYTHING does
not need to have an initialized value (register).

This can worst case lead to unintented stack memory leakage in future
helper functions if they are not carefully designed, or unintended
application behaviour in case the application developer was not careful
enough to match a correct helper function signature in the API.

The underlying issue is that ARG_ANYTHING should actually be split
into two different semantics:

  1) ARG_DONTCARE for function arguments that the helper function
     does not care about (in other words: the default for unused
     function arguments), and

  2) ARG_ANYTHING that is an argument actually being used by a
     helper function and *guaranteed* to be an initialized register.

The current risk is low: ARG_ANYTHING is only used for the 'flags'
argument (r4) in bpf_map_update_elem() that internally does strict
checking.

Fixes: 17a5267067f3 ("bpf: verifier (add verifier core)")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
include/linux/bpf.h
kernel/bpf/verifier.c