[PATCH] bpf: handle 32-bit zext during constant blinding
Naveen N. Rao
naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Aug 26 16:59:05 AEST 2019
Jiong Wang wrote:
>
> Naveen N. Rao writes:
>
>> Since BPF constant blinding is performed after the verifier pass, the
>> ALU32 instructions inserted for doubleword immediate loads don't have a
>> corresponding zext instruction. This is causing a kernel oops on powerpc
>> and can be reproduced by running 'test_cgroup_storage' with
>> bpf_jit_harden=2.
>>
>> Fix this by emitting BPF_ZEXT during constant blinding if
>> prog->aux->verifier_zext is set.
>>
>> Fixes: a4b1d3c1ddf6cb ("bpf: verifier: insert zero extension according to analysis result")
>> Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Thanks for the fix.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jiong Wang <jiong.wang at netronome.com>
>
> Just two other comments during review in case I am wrong on somewhere.
>
> - Use verifier_zext instead of bpf_jit_needs_zext() seems better, even
> though the latter could avoid extending function argument.
>
> Because JIT back-ends look at verifier_zext, true means zext inserted
> by verifier so JITs won't do the code-gen.
>
> Use verifier_zext is sort of keeping JIT blinding the same behaviour
> has verifier even though blinding doesn't belong to verifier, but for
> such insn patching, it could be seen as a extension of verifier,
> therefore use verifier_zext seems better than bpf_jit_needs_zext() to
> me.
>
> - JIT blinding is also escaping the HI32 randomization which happens
> inside verifier, otherwise x86-64 regression should have caught this issue.
Jiong,
Thanks for the review.
Alexei, Daniel,
Can you please pick this up for v5.3. This is a regression and is
causing a crash on powerpc.
- Naveen
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