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Gianluca Borello 06c1c04972 bpf: allow helpers access to variable memory
Currently, helpers that read and write from/to the stack can do so using
a pair of arguments of type ARG_PTR_TO_STACK and ARG_CONST_STACK_SIZE.
ARG_CONST_STACK_SIZE accepts a constant register of type CONST_IMM, so
that the verifier can safely check the memory access. However, requiring
the argument to be a constant can be limiting in some circumstances.

Since the current logic keeps track of the minimum and maximum value of
a register throughout the simulated execution, ARG_CONST_STACK_SIZE can
be changed to also accept an UNKNOWN_VALUE register in case its
boundaries have been set and the range doesn't cause invalid memory
accesses.

One common situation when this is useful:

int len;
char buf[BUFSIZE]; /* BUFSIZE is 128 */

if (some_condition)
	len = 42;
else
	len = 84;

some_helper(..., buf, len & (BUFSIZE - 1));

The compiler can often decide to assign the constant values 42 or 48
into a variable on the stack, instead of keeping it in a register. When
the variable is then read back from stack into the register in order to
be passed to the helper, the verifier will not be able to recognize the
register as constant (the verifier is not currently tracking all
constant writes into memory), and the program won't be valid.

However, by allowing the helper to accept an UNKNOWN_VALUE register,
this program will work because the bitwise AND operation will set the
range of possible values for the UNKNOWN_VALUE register to [0, BUFSIZE),
so the verifier can guarantee the helper call will be safe (assuming the
argument is of type ARG_CONST_STACK_SIZE_OR_ZERO, otherwise one more
check against 0 would be needed). Custom ranges can be set not only with
ALU operations, but also by explicitly comparing the UNKNOWN_VALUE
register with constants.

Another very common example happens when intercepting system call
arguments and accessing user-provided data of variable size using
bpf_probe_read(). One can load at runtime the user-provided length in an
UNKNOWN_VALUE register, and then read that exact amount of data up to a
compile-time determined limit in order to fit into the proper local
storage allocated on the stack, without having to guess a suboptimal
access size at compile time.

Also, in case the helpers accepting the UNKNOWN_VALUE register operate
in raw mode, disable the raw mode so that the program is required to
initialize all memory, since there is no guarantee the helper will fill
it completely, leaving possibilities for data leak (just relevant when
the memory used by the helper is the stack, not when using a pointer to
map element value or packet). In other words, ARG_PTR_TO_RAW_STACK will
be treated as ARG_PTR_TO_STACK.

Signed-off-by: Gianluca Borello <g.borello@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-09 16:56:27 -05:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-09 15:39:11 -05:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-01-04 09:03:37 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-09 15:39:11 -05:00
drivers sh_eth: enable wake-on-lan for sh7763 2017-01-09 15:55:08 -05:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs RxRPC rewrite 2017-01-09 15:47:52 -05:00
include smc: netlink interface for SMC sockets 2017-01-09 16:07:41 -05:00
init mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem: avoid idr tree lookup for interrupted semop 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
kernel bpf: allow helpers access to variable memory 2017-01-09 16:56:27 -05:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-09 15:39:11 -05:00
mm mm: workingset: fix use-after-free in shadow node shrinker 2017-01-07 18:22:40 -08:00
net smc: netlink interface for SMC sockets 2017-01-09 16:07:41 -05:00
samples vfio-mdev: fix some error codes in the sample code 2017-01-04 08:32:23 -07:00
scripts gcc-plugins: update gcc-common.h for gcc-7 2017-01-03 12:08:59 -08:00
security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound Revert "ALSA: firewire-lib: change structure member with proper type" 2017-01-05 08:39:47 +01:00
tools bpf: allow helpers access to variable memory 2017-01-09 16:56:27 -05:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-25 14:30:04 -08:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS smc: establish new socket family 2017-01-09 16:07:38 -05:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc3 2017-01-08 14:18:17 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.