netdev - Re: [PATCH] bpf: explicitly memset the bpf

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Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:46:33 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Alistair Delva <adelva@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: explicitly memset the bpf_attr structure

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 08:23:57AM -0700, Yonghong Song wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/20/20 2:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > For the bpf syscall, we are relying on the compiler to properly zero out
> > the bpf_attr union that we copy userspace data into.  Unfortunately that
> > doesn't always work properly, padding and other oddities might not be
> > correctly zeroed, and in some tests odd things have been found when the
> > stack is pre-initialized to other values.
> 
> Maybe add more contexts about the failure itself so it could be clear
> why we need this patch.

I didn't have the full details, I think Maciej has them though.

> As far as I know from the link below, the failure happens in
> CHECK_ATTR() which checks any unused *area* for a particular subcommand
> must be 0, and this patch tries to provide this guarantee beyond
> area beyond min(uattr_size, sizeof(attr)).

That macro also will get tripped up if padding is not zeroed out as
well, so this is good to fix up.

thanks for the review.

greg k-h