From: Ning Ding When the final RCU read-side critical section ends, a local kptr is demoted to PTR_UNTRUSTED but retains MEM_ALLOC. The pointer may be NULL or may refer to an object whose lifetime is no longer protected. type_is_ptr_alloc_obj() nevertheless recognizes any PTR_TO_BTF_ID with MEM_ALLOC as a live allocated object. In particular, a refcount-only local kptr never carries NON_OWN_REF, so it still passes the bpf_refcount_acquire() argument check after RCU protection ends. The kfunc can then dereference NULL or stale memory. Make type_is_ptr_alloc_obj() reject PTR_UNTRUSTED pointers. Since type_is_non_owning_ref() is based on the same predicate, graph kfunc arguments obey the same live-object requirement. Fault-protected reads of the demoted pointer remain valid: writes are already rejected, and read fixups use bpf_may_fault_on_deref() rather than this predicate. Fixes: 1b12171533a9 ("bpf: Mark direct ld of stashed bpf_{rb,list}_node as non-owning ref") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini Signed-off-by: Ning Ding [ kkd: Rewrote commit log ] Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi --- include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h index 1339c2f028db..36b65797877d 100644 --- a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h +++ b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h @@ -1381,7 +1381,9 @@ static inline bool bpf_type_has_unsafe_modifiers(u32 type) static inline bool type_is_ptr_alloc_obj(u32 type) { - return base_type(type) == PTR_TO_BTF_ID && type_flag(type) & MEM_ALLOC; + return base_type(type) == PTR_TO_BTF_ID && + type_flag(type) & MEM_ALLOC && + !(type_flag(type) & PTR_UNTRUSTED); } static inline bool type_is_non_owning_ref(u32 type) -- 2.53.0