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Weiming Shi 1c22483a2c bpf: reject negative CO-RE accessor indices in bpf_core_parse_spec()
CO-RE accessor strings are colon-separated indices that describe a path
from a root BTF type to a target field, e.g. "0:1:2" walks through
nested struct members. bpf_core_parse_spec() parses each component with
sscanf("%d"), so negative values like -1 are silently accepted.  The
subsequent bounds checks (access_idx >= btf_vlen(t)) only guard the
upper bound and always pass for negative values because C integer
promotion converts the __u16 btf_vlen result to int, making the
comparison (int)(-1) >= (int)(N) false for any positive N.

When -1 reaches btf_member_bit_offset() it gets cast to u32 0xffffffff,
producing an out-of-bounds read far past the members array.  A crafted
BPF program with a negative CO-RE accessor on any struct that exists in
vmlinux BTF (e.g. task_struct) crashes the kernel deterministically
during BPF_PROG_LOAD on any system with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y
(default on major distributions).  The bug is reachable with CAP_BPF:

 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffed11818b6626
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 85 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.0.0-rc6 #18 PREEMPT(full)
 RIP: 0010:bpf_core_parse_spec (tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c:354)
 RAX: 00000000ffffffff
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  bpf_core_calc_relo_insn (tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c:1321)
  bpf_core_apply (kernel/bpf/btf.c:9507)
  check_core_relo (kernel/bpf/verifier.c:19475)
  bpf_check (kernel/bpf/verifier.c:26031)
  bpf_prog_load (kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3089)
  __sys_bpf (kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6228)
  </TASK>

CO-RE accessor indices are inherently non-negative (struct member index,
array element index, or enumerator index), so reject them immediately
after parsing.

Fixes: ddc7c30426 ("libbpf: implement BPF CO-RE offset relocation algorithm")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Acked-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260404161221.961828-2-bestswngs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-04-07 08:27:55 -07:00
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api libapi: Add missing header with NAME_MAX define to io_dir.h 2025-03-13 00:29:36 -07:00
bpf bpf: reject negative CO-RE accessor indices in bpf_core_parse_spec() 2026-04-07 08:27:55 -07:00
perf perf evlist: Special map propagation for tool events that read on 1 CPU 2026-02-10 09:33:28 -03:00
python docs: kdoc_parser: allow __exit in function prototypes 2026-02-09 12:46:28 -07:00
subcmd libsubcmd: Fix null intersection case in exclude_cmds() 2026-01-13 16:45:43 -03:00
symbol tools: Drop nonsensical -O6 2024-09-11 13:08:36 -03:00
thermal tools: lib: thermal: Correct CFLAGS and LDFLAGS in pkg-config template 2026-01-20 20:37:38 +01:00
argv_split.c
bitmap.c tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()] 2026-02-12 15:42:57 -08:00
cmdline.c memblock test: fix implicit declaration of function 'memparse' 2024-08-06 08:21:25 +03:00
ctype.c
find_bit.c
hweight.c
list_sort.c tools/lib/list_sort: remove unnecessary header includes 2024-11-05 17:12:33 -08:00
rbtree.c tools lib rbtree: pick some improvements from the kernel rbtree code 2024-05-08 08:41:27 -07:00
slab.c lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure 2025-03-17 12:17:00 -07:00
str_error_r.c
string.c perf annotate: Add disasm_line__parse() to parse raw instruction for powerpc 2024-07-31 16:12:59 -03:00
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zalloc.c