netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bpf: fix verifier memory corruption

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Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:05:58 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bpf: fix verifier memory corruption

On 04/15/2015 12:57 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> 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@...mgrid.com>

As far as I can tell, looks good to me. Any other access to a next
instruction elsewhere would be blocked from push_insn() with an error.

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
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