Re: [PATCH bpf v1] bpf: Fix undefined behavior in narrow load handling

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Thu May 09 2019 - 17:31:50 EST


On 05/08/2019 06:08 PM, Krzesimir Nowak wrote:
> Commit 31fd85816dbe ("bpf: permits narrower load from bpf program
> context fields") made the verifier add AND instructions to clear the
> unwanted bits with a mask when doing a narrow load. The mask is
> computed with
>
> (1 << size * 8) - 1
>
> where "size" is the size of the narrow load. When doing a 4 byte load
> of a an 8 byte field the verifier shifts the literal 1 by 32 places to
> the left. This results in an overflow of a signed integer, which is an
> undefined behavior. Typically the computed mask was zero, so the
> result of the narrow load ended up being zero too.
>
> Cast the literal to long long to avoid overflows. Note that narrow
> load of the 4 byte fields does not have the undefined behavior,
> because the load size can only be either 1 or 2 bytes, so shifting 1
> by 8 or 16 places will not overflow it. And reading 4 bytes would not
> be a narrow load of a 4 bytes field.
>
> Reviewed-by: Alban Crequy <alban@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Iago LÃpez Galeiras <iago@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 31fd85816dbe ("bpf: permits narrower load from bpf program context fields")
> Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> index 09d5d972c9ff..950fac024fbb 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> @@ -7296,7 +7296,7 @@ static int convert_ctx_accesses(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
> insn->dst_reg,
> shift);
> insn_buf[cnt++] = BPF_ALU64_IMM(BPF_AND, insn->dst_reg,
> - (1 << size * 8) - 1);
> + (1ULL << size * 8) - 1);
> }

Makes sense, good catch & thanks for the fix!

Could you also add a test case to test_verifier.c so we keep track of this?

Thanks,
Daniel