netdev - Re: [PATCH net] Drop packets with invalid headers to prevent KMSAN infoleak

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Message-ID: <CAGiJo8RzhDgfP9hcND4fGjtA4RRGhZVdxWmJmXas_azuxwqZaA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:34:55 -0700
From: Daniel Yang <danielyangkang@...il.com>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, 
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, 
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	"open list:BPF [NETWORKING] (tcx & tc BPF, sock_addr)" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net] Drop packets with invalid headers to prevent KMSAN infoleak

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 9:41 AM Alexander Lobakin
<aleksander.lobakin@...el.com> wrote:
> > +     if (unlikely(skb->len < dev->min_header_len ||
> > +                  skb_mac_header_len(skb) < dev->min_header_len ||
> > +                  skb_mac_header_len(skb) > dev->hard_header_len)) {
> > +             kfree_skb(skb);
> > +             return -ERANGE;
> > +     }
>
> I believe this should go under IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KMSAN) or
> CONFIG_DEBUG_NET or so to not affect the regular configurations.
> Or does this fix some real bug?

Well in my opinion, an infoleak is still an infoleak. But, this would
likely not get triggered as long as an skb with a properly initialized
eth header is passed into the bpf_clone_redirect function. We could
initialize the memory to 0 but the performance hit would be too much.
If the bpf_clone_redirect() function cannot be called from user space
with user-crafted skbs as input, I don't think this is really an issue
and we can just put it under the macros to get rid of the syzbot
error.

- Daniel