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    bpf: Fix kernel address leakage in atomic cmpxchg's r0 aux reg · a82fe085
    Daniel Borkmann authored
    The implementation of BPF_CMPXCHG on a high level has the following parameters:
    
      .-[old-val]                                          .-[new-val]
      BPF_R0 = cmpxchg{32,64}(DST_REG + insn->off, BPF_R0, SRC_REG)
                              `-[mem-loc]          `-[old-val]
    
    Given a BPF insn can only have two registers (dst, src), the R0 is fixed and
    used as an auxilliary register for input (old value) as well as output (returning
    old value from memory location). While the verifier performs a number of safety
    checks, it misses to reject unprivileged programs where R0 contains a pointer as
    old value.
    
    Through brute-forcing it takes about ~16sec on my machine to leak a kernel pointer
    with BPF_CMPXCHG. The PoC is basically probing for kernel addresses by storing the
    guessed address into the map slot as a scalar, and using the map value pointer as
    R0 while SRC_REG has a canary value to detect a matching address.
    
    Fix it by checking R0 for pointers, and reject if that's the case for unprivileged
    programs.
    
    Fixes: 5ffa2550 ("bpf: Add instructions for atomic_[cmp]xchg")
    Reported-by: Ryota Shiga (Flatt Security)
    Acked-by: default avatarBrendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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