On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 12:45:23PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Hey Sasha, hey Greg,
>
> On 4/7/20 12:21 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 604dca5e3af1db98bd123b7bfc02b017af99e3a0 ]
> >
> > The BPF verifier tried to track values based on 32-bit comparisons by
> > (ab)using the tnum state via 581738a681b6 ("bpf: Provide better register
> > bounds after jmp32 instructions"). The idea is that after a check like
> > this:
> >
> > if ((u32)r0 > 3)
> > exit
> >
> > We can't meaningfully constrain the arithmetic-range-based tracking, but
> > we can update the tnum state to (value=0,mask=0xffff'ffff'0000'0003).
> > However, the implementation from 581738a681b6 didn't compute the tnum
> > constraint based on the fixed operand, but instead derives it from the
> > arithmetic-range-based tracking. This means that after the following
> > sequence of operations:
> >
> > if (r0 >= 0x1'0000'0001)
> > exit
> > if ((u32)r0 > 7)
> > exit
> >
> > The verifier assumed that the lower half of r0 is in the range (0, 0)
> > and apply the tnum constraint (value=0,mask=0xffff'ffff'0000'0000) thus
> > causing the overall tnum to be (value=0,mask=0x1'0000'0000), which was
> > incorrect. Provide a fixed implementation.
> >
> > Fixes: 581738a681b6 ("bpf: Provide better register bounds after jmp32 instructions")
> > Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200330160324.15259-3-daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We've already addressed this issue (CVE-2020-8835) on 5.4/5.5/5.6 kernels through
> the following backports:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.4.y&id=8d62a8c7489a68b5738390b008134a644aa9b383
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.5.y&id=0ebc01466d98d016eb6a3780ec8edb0c86fa48bc
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.6.y&id=6797143df51c8ae259aa4bfe4e99c832b20bde8a
>
> Given the severity of the issue, we concluded that revert-only is the best and
> most straight forward way to address it for stable.
>
> Was this selected via Sasha's ML mechanism? Should there be a commit tag to opt-out
> for some commits being selected? E.g. this one 581738a681b6 ("bpf: Provide better
> register bounds after jmp32 instructions") already fell through our radar and wrongly
> made its way into 5.4 where it should have never landed. :/
Oops, yeah, I think this came from Sasha's simple "Fixes:" script, and
wasn't aware that it was already resolved. I'll go drop these patches
now, thanks for catching this.
greg k-h
