netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 01/10] bpf: disallow attaching modify_return tracing functions to other BPF programs

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Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:39:26 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@...hat.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 01/10] bpf: disallow attaching modify_return
 tracing functions to other BPF programs

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 4:50 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
>
> From the checks and commit messages for modify_return, it seems it was
> never the intention that it should be possible to attach a tracing program
> with expected_attach_type == BPF_MODIFY_RETURN to another BPF program.
> However, check_attach_modify_return() will only look at the function name,
> so if the target function starts with "security_", the attach will be
> allowed even for bpf2bpf attachment.
>
> Fix this oversight by also blocking the modification if a target program is
> supplied.
>
> Fixes: 18644cec714a ("bpf: Fix use-after-free in fmod_ret check")
> Fixes: 6ba43b761c41 ("bpf: Attachment verification for BPF_MODIFY_RETURN")
> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/bpf/verifier.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> index 4161b6c406bc..cb1b0f9fd770 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> @@ -11442,7 +11442,7 @@ static int check_attach_btf_id(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
>                                         prog->aux->attach_func_name);
>                 } else if (prog->expected_attach_type == BPF_MODIFY_RETURN) {
>                         ret = check_attach_modify_return(prog, addr);
> -                       if (ret)
> +                       if (ret || tgt_prog)

can you please do it as a separate check with a more appropriate and
meaningful message?

>                                 verbose(env, "%s() is not modifiable\n",
>                                         prog->aux->attach_func_name);
>                 }
>