This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bpf/verifier: reject invalid LD_ABS | BPF_DW instruction to the 4.4-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-verifier-reject-invalid-ld_abs-bpf_dw-instruction.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon May 16 11:21:32 PDT 2016 From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:26:19 -0700 Subject: bpf/verifier: reject invalid LD_ABS | BPF_DW instruction From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d82bccc69041a51f7b7b9b4a36db0772f4cdba21 ] verifier must check for reserved size bits in instruction opcode and reject BPF_LD | BPF_ABS | BPF_DW and BPF_LD | BPF_IND | BPF_DW instructions, otherwise interpreter will WARN_RATELIMIT on them during execution. Fixes: ddd872bc3098 ("bpf: verifier: add checks for BPF_ABS | BPF_IND instructions") Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c @@ -1348,6 +1348,7 @@ static int check_ld_abs(struct verifier_ } if (insn->dst_reg != BPF_REG_0 || insn->off != 0 || + BPF_SIZE(insn->code) == BPF_DW || (mode == BPF_ABS && insn->src_reg != BPF_REG_0)) { verbose("BPF_LD_ABS uses reserved fields\n"); return -EINVAL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ast@xxxxxx are queue-4.4/samples-bpf-fix-trace_output-example.patch queue-4.4/bpf-fix-refcnt-overflow.patch queue-4.4/bpf-verifier-reject-invalid-ld_abs-bpf_dw-instruction.patch queue-4.4/bpf-fix-check_map_func_compatibility-logic.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html