netdev - Re: [PATCH 4.4-stable 0/6] bpf: prevent out-of-bounds speculation

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:28:37 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4-stable 0/6] bpf: prevent out-of-bounds speculation

Hi Jiri,

On 01/12/2018 05:17 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a backport of these patches which I did for our kernels:

Thanks for doing! One comment below:

> c237ee5eb33b bpf: add bpf_patch_insn_single helper
> 3df126f35f88 bpf: don't (ab)use instructions to store state
> e245c5c6a565 bpf: move fixup_bpf_calls() function
> 79741b3bdec0 bpf: refactor fixup_bpf_calls()
> 8041902dae52 bpf: adjust insn_aux_data when patching insns
> b2157399cc98 bpf: prevent out-of-bounds speculation
> 
> I offer it here for use in stable 4.4, if there is no better/simpler
> backport available yet.
> 
> Alexei Starovoitov (4):
>   bpf: move fixup_bpf_calls() function
>   bpf: refactor fixup_bpf_calls()
>   bpf: adjust insn_aux_data when patching insns
>   bpf: prevent out-of-bounds speculation

Please note that this still needs a fix [0] in addition. It's in
bpf tree [1] and we'll get this out today to DaveM as a pull-req
today, and hopefully it wouldn't take too long to land in Linus'
tree from there again, sorry for the inconvenience. Once that
landed we can move this into 4.4.

  [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf.git/commit/?id=bbeb6e4323dad9b5e0ee9f60c223dd532e2403b1
  [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf.git/

> Daniel Borkmann (1):
>   bpf: add bpf_patch_insn_single helper
> 
> Jakub Kicinski (1):
>   bpf: don't (ab)use instructions to store state
> 
>  include/linux/bpf.h    |   2 +
>  include/linux/filter.h |   3 +
>  kernel/bpf/arraymap.c  |  24 ++++--
>  kernel/bpf/core.c      |  71 ++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/bpf/syscall.c   |  54 ------------
>  kernel/bpf/verifier.c  | 217 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  6 files changed, 252 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)