This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bpf: disallow attaching modify_return tracing functions to other BPF programs to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: bpf-disallow-attaching-modify_return-tracing-functio.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c1fe1cb5873ca1c260cccb05be97014a3bb35352 Author: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Sep 25 23:25:00 2020 +0200 bpf: disallow attaching modify_return tracing functions to other BPF programs [ Upstream commit 1af9270e908cd50a4f5d815c9b6f794c7d57ed07 ] From the checks and commit messages for modify_return, it seems it was never the intention that it should be possible to attach a tracing program with expected_attach_type == BPF_MODIFY_RETURN to another BPF program. However, check_attach_modify_return() will only look at the function name, so if the target function starts with "security_", the attach will be allowed even for bpf2bpf attachment. Fix this oversight by also blocking the modification if a target program is supplied. Fixes: 18644cec714a ("bpf: Fix use-after-free in fmod_ret check") Fixes: 6ba43b761c41 ("bpf: Attachment verification for BPF_MODIFY_RETURN") Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c index 89b07db146763..c953dfbbaa6a9 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c @@ -10862,6 +10862,11 @@ static int check_attach_btf_id(struct bpf_verifier_env *env) } if (prog->expected_attach_type == BPF_MODIFY_RETURN) { + if (tgt_prog) { + verbose(env, "can't modify return codes of BPF programs\n"); + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } ret = check_attach_modify_return(prog, addr); if (ret) verbose(env, "%s() is not modifiable\n",