From: Mingyi Zhang <zhangmingyi5@xxxxxxxxxx> During our fuzz testing, we encountered the following error: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00000000005915bb in __interceptor_strcmp.part.0 () (gdb) bt #0 0x00000000005915bb in __interceptor_strcmp.part.0 () #1 0x000000000087dc65 in __wrap_strcmp () #2 0x0000000000951ded in find_extern_btf_id () at libbpf.c:3508 #3 0x000000000094d7a1 in bpf_object.collect_externs () at libbpf.c:3712 #4 0x000000000092be3b in bpf_object_open () at libbpf.c:7433 #5 0x000000000092c046 in bpf_object.open_mem () at libbpf.c:7497 #6 0x0000000000924afa in LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput () at fuzz/bpf-object-fuzzer.c:16 #7 0x000000000060be11 in testblitz_engine::fuzzer::Fuzzer::run_one () #8 0x000000000087ad92 in tracing::span::Span::in_scope () #9 0x00000000006078aa in testblitz_engine::fuzzer::util::walkdir () #10 0x00000000005f3217 in testblitz_engine::entrypoint::main::{{closure}} () #11 0x00000000005f2601 in main () (gdb) tname = btf__name_by_offset(btf, t->name_off); if (strcmp(tname, ext_name)) continue; tname is passed directly into strcmp without a null pointer check. When t(btf_type)->name_off >= btf->hdr->str_len, tname is NULL. normally, that's not likely to happen. Considering that the bpf_object__open_mem interface is a direct API provided to users, which reads directly from memory. There may be an input similar to this fuzzing, leading to a Segmentation fault. Signed-off-by: Mingyi Zhang <zhangmingyi5@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xin Liu <liuxin350@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 604368cfbf02..c65d2f2abea4 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -3944,7 +3944,7 @@ static int find_extern_btf_id(const struct btf *btf, const char *ext_name) continue; tname = btf__name_by_offset(btf, t->name_off); - if (strcmp(tname, ext_name)) + if (tname && strcmp(tname, ext_name)) continue; if (btf_is_var(t) && -- 2.33.0