Commit 1af9270e authored Sep 25, 2020 by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Committed by Alexei Starovoitov Sep 28, 2020

bpf: disallow attaching modify_return tracing functions to other BPF programs



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: 18644cec ("bpf: Fix use-after-free in fmod_ret check")
Fixes: 6ba43b76 ("bpf: Attachment verification for BPF_MODIFY_RETURN")
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

parent 84a20d8e

kernel/bpf/verifier.c

+5 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -11500,6 +11500,11 @@ static int check_attach_btf_id(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
		verbose(env, "%s is not sleepable\n",
		prog->aux->attach_func_name);
		} else if (prog->expected_attach_type == BPF_MODIFY_RETURN) {
		if (tgt_prog) {
		verbose(env, "can't modify return codes of BPF programs\n");
		ret = -EINVAL;
		goto out;
		}
		ret = check_attach_modify_return(prog, addr);
		if (ret)
		verbose(env, "%s() is not modifiable\n",

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