linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53634: bpf, arm64: Fixed a BTI error on returning to patched function

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Message-ID: <2025100714-CVE-2023-53634-8155@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  7 Oct 2025 17:19:39 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53634: bpf, arm64: Fixed a BTI error on returning to patched function

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf, arm64: Fixed a BTI error on returning to patched function

When BPF_TRAMP_F_CALL_ORIG is set, BPF trampoline uses BLR to jump
back to the instruction next to call site to call the patched function.
For BTI-enabled kernel, the instruction next to call site is usually
PACIASP, in this case, it's safe to jump back with BLR. But when
the call site is not followed by a PACIASP or bti, a BTI exception
is triggered.

Here is a fault log:

 Unhandled 64-bit el1h sync exception on CPU0, ESR 0x0000000034000002 -- BTI
 CPU: 0 PID: 263 Comm: test_progs Tainted: GF
 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
 pstate: 40400805 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=-c)
 pc : bpf_fentry_test1+0xc/0x30
 lr : bpf_trampoline_6442573892_0+0x48/0x1000
 sp : ffff80000c0c3a50
 x29: ffff80000c0c3a90 x28: ffff0000c2e6c080 x27: 0000000000000000
 x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000050
 x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000ffffcfd2a7f0 x21: 000000000000000a
 x20: 0000ffffcfd2a7f0 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000000
 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000ffffcfd2a7f0
 x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
 x11: 0000000000000000 x10: ffff80000914f5e4 x9 : ffff8000082a1528
 x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0101010101010101
 x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 00000000fffffff2 x3 : 0000000000000001
 x2 : ffff8001f4b82000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000001
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Unhandled exception
 CPU: 0 PID: 263 Comm: test_progs Tainted: GF
 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
 Call trace:
  dump_backtrace+0xec/0x144
  show_stack+0x24/0x7c
  dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xb8
  dump_stack+0x18/0x34
  panic+0x1cc/0x3ec
  __el0_error_handler_common+0x0/0x130
  el1h_64_sync_handler+0x60/0xd0
  el1h_64_sync+0x78/0x7c
  bpf_fentry_test1+0xc/0x30
  bpf_fentry_test1+0xc/0x30
  bpf_prog_test_run_tracing+0xdc/0x2a0
  __sys_bpf+0x438/0x22a0
  __arm64_sys_bpf+0x30/0x54
  invoke_syscall+0x78/0x110
  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x6c/0x1d0
  do_el0_svc+0x38/0xe0
  el0_svc+0x30/0xd0
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1ac/0x1b0
  el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4
 Kernel Offset: disabled
 CPU features: 0x0000,00034c24,f994fdab
 Memory Limit: none

And the instruction next to call site of bpf_fentry_test1 is ADD,
not PACIASP:

<bpf_fentry_test1>:
	bti     c
	nop
	nop
	add     w0, w0, #0x1
	paciasp

For BPF prog, JIT always puts a PACIASP after call site for BTI-enabled
kernel, so there is no problem. To fix it, replace BLR with RET to bypass
the branch target check.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53634 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit efc9909fdce00a827a37609628223cd45bf95d0b and fixed in 6.1.25 with commit 8b9c64942ada229f52fe6f1b537a50f88b3c2673
	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit efc9909fdce00a827a37609628223cd45bf95d0b and fixed in 6.2.12 with commit eabc166919d169e105263974991f52b0351e431a
	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit efc9909fdce00a827a37609628223cd45bf95d0b and fixed in 6.3 with commit 738a96c4a8c36950803fdd27e7c30aca92dccefd

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53634
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit.h
	arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b9c64942ada229f52fe6f1b537a50f88b3c2673
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eabc166919d169e105263974991f52b0351e431a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/738a96c4a8c36950803fdd27e7c30aca92dccefd