[PATCH bpf-next v3 1/7] bpf: Disallow NULLable pointers for trusted kfuncs

[David Vernet]

KF_TRUSTED_ARGS kfuncs currently have a subtle and insidious bug in
validating pointers to scalars. Say that you have a kfunc like the
following, which takes an array as the first argument:

bool bpf_cpumask_empty(const struct cpumask *cpumask)
{
	return cpumask_empty(cpumask);
}

...
BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_cpumask_empty, KF_TRUSTED_ARGS)
...

If a BPF program were to invoke the kfunc with a NULL argument, it would
crash the kernel. The reason is that struct cpumask is defined as a
bitmap, which is itself defined as an array, and is accessed as a memory
address by bitmap operations. So when the verifier analyzes the
register, it interprets it as a pointer to a scalar struct, which is an
array of size 8. check_mem_reg() then sees that the register is NULL and
returns 0, and the kfunc crashes when it passes it down to the cpumask
wrappers.

To fix this, this patch adds a check for KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM which
verifies that the register doesn't contain a possibly-NULL pointer if
the kfunc is KF_TRUSTED_ARGS.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c                                  | 6 ++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/cgrp_kfunc.c    | 4 ++--
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/task_kfunc_failure.c | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 66ec577fcb8b..bb38b01b738f 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -9194,6 +9194,12 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 
+		if (is_kfunc_trusted_args(meta) &&
+		    (register_is_null(reg) || type_may_be_null(reg->type))) {
+			verbose(env, "Possibly NULL pointer passed to trusted arg%d\n", i);
+			return -EACCES;
+		}
+
 		if (reg->ref_obj_id) {
 			if (is_kfunc_release(meta) && meta->ref_obj_id) {
 				verbose(env, "verifier internal error: more than one arg with ref_obj_id R%d %u %u\n",
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/cgrp_kfunc.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/cgrp_kfunc.c
index 973f0c5af965..f3bb0e16e088 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/cgrp_kfunc.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/cgrp_kfunc.c
@@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ static struct {
 	const char *prog_name;
 	const char *expected_err_msg;
 } failure_tests[] = {
-	{"cgrp_kfunc_acquire_untrusted", "R1 must be referenced or trusted"},
+	{"cgrp_kfunc_acquire_untrusted", "Possibly NULL pointer passed to trusted arg0"},
 	{"cgrp_kfunc_acquire_fp", "arg#0 pointer type STRUCT cgroup must point"},
 	{"cgrp_kfunc_acquire_unsafe_kretprobe", "reg type unsupported for arg#0 function"},
 	{"cgrp_kfunc_acquire_trusted_walked", "R1 must be referenced or trusted"},
-	{"cgrp_kfunc_acquire_null", "arg#0 pointer type STRUCT cgroup must point"},
+	{"cgrp_kfunc_acquire_null", "Possibly NULL pointer passed to trusted arg0"},
 	{"cgrp_kfunc_acquire_unreleased", "Unreleased reference"},
 	{"cgrp_kfunc_get_non_kptr_param", "arg#0 expected pointer to map value"},
 	{"cgrp_kfunc_get_non_kptr_acquired", "arg#0 expected pointer to map value"},
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/task_kfunc_failure.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/task_kfunc_failure.c
index e6950d6a9cf0..f19d54eda4f1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/task_kfunc_failure.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/task_kfunc_failure.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static struct __tasks_kfunc_map_value *insert_lookup_task(struct task_struct *ta
 }
 
 SEC("tp_btf/task_newtask")
-__failure __msg("R1 must be referenced or trusted")
+__failure __msg("Possibly NULL pointer passed to trusted arg0")
 int BPF_PROG(task_kfunc_acquire_untrusted, struct task_struct *task, u64 clone_flags)
 {
 	struct task_struct *acquired;
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ int BPF_PROG(task_kfunc_acquire_trusted_walked, struct task_struct *task, u64 cl
 
 
 SEC("tp_btf/task_newtask")
-__failure __msg("arg#0 pointer type STRUCT task_struct must point")
+__failure __msg("Possibly NULL pointer passed to trusted arg0")
 int BPF_PROG(task_kfunc_acquire_null, struct task_struct *task, u64 clone_flags)
 {
 	struct task_struct *acquired;
-- 
2.39.0