This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bpf: fix verifier memory corruption
to the 4.0-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-fix-verifier-memory-corruption.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 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 Tue Apr 21 23:10:35 CEST 2015
From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:57:13 -0700
Subject: bpf: fix verifier memory corruption
From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit c3de6317d748e23b9e46ba36e10483728d00d144 ]
Due to missing bounds check the DAG pass of the BPF verifier can corrupt
the memory which can cause random crashes during program loading:
[8.449451] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff
[8.451293] IP: [<ffffffff811de33d>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x8d/0x2f0
[8.452329] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[8.452329] Call Trace:
[8.452329] [<ffffffff8116cc82>] bpf_check+0x852/0x2000
[8.452329] [<ffffffff8116b7e4>] bpf_prog_load+0x1e4/0x310
[8.452329] [<ffffffff811b190f>] ? might_fault+0x5f/0xb0
[8.452329] [<ffffffff8116c206>] SyS_bpf+0x806/0xa30
Fixes: f1bca824dabb ("bpf: add search pruning optimization to verifier")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -1380,7 +1380,8 @@ peek_stack:
/* tell verifier to check for equivalent states
* after every call and jump
*/
- env->explored_states[t + 1] = STATE_LIST_MARK;
+ if (t + 1 < insn_cnt)
+ env->explored_states[t + 1] = STATE_LIST_MARK;
} else {
/* conditional jump with two edges */
ret = push_insn(t, t + 1, FALLTHROUGH, env);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.0/bpf-fix-verifier-memory-corruption.patch
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