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authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2016-06-30 17:24:43 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-07-01 16:00:47 -0400
commit1aacde3d22c42281236155c1ef6d7a5aa32a826b (patch)
treeaadd81da8dd71ed62ab09fdcae89402d904172d4 /kernel/events
parent466fc793da3aea0caf365e7fadc67473e4cdaa80 (diff)
bpf: generally move prog destruction to RCU deferral
Jann Horn reported following analysis that could potentially result in a very hard to trigger (if not impossible) UAF race, to quote his event timeline: - Set up a process with threads T1, T2 and T3 - Let T1 set up a socket filter F1 that invokes another filter F2 through a BPF map [tail call] - Let T1 trigger the socket filter via a unix domain socket write, don't wait for completion - Let T2 call PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF with F2, don't wait for completion - Now T2 should be behind bpf_prog_get(), but before bpf_prog_put() - Let T3 close the file descriptor for F2, dropping the reference count of F2 to 2 - At this point, T1 should have looked up F2 from the map, but not finished executing it - Let T3 remove F2 from the BPF map, dropping the reference count of F2 to 1 - Now T2 should call bpf_prog_put() (wrong BPF program type), dropping the reference count of F2 to 0 and scheduling bpf_prog_free_deferred() via schedule_work() - At this point, the BPF program could be freed - BPF execution is still running in a freed BPF program While at PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF time it's only guaranteed that the perf event fd we're doing the syscall on doesn't disappear from underneath us for whole syscall time, it may not be the case for the bpf fd used as an argument only after we did the put. It needs to be a valid fd pointing to a BPF program at the time of the call to make the bpf_prog_get() and while T2 gets preempted, F2 must have dropped reference to 1 on the other CPU. The fput() from the close() in T3 should also add additionally delay to the reference drop via exit_task_work() when bpf_prog_release() gets called as well as scheduling bpf_prog_free_deferred(). That said, it makes nevertheless sense to move the BPF prog destruction generally after RCU grace period to guarantee that such scenario above, but also others as recently fixed in ceb56070359b ("bpf, perf: delay release of BPF prog after grace period") with regards to tail calls won't happen. Integrating bpf_prog_free_deferred() directly into the RCU callback is not allowed since the invocation might happen from either softirq or process context, so we're not permitted to block. Reviewing all bpf_prog_put() invocations from eBPF side (note, cBPF -> eBPF progs don't use this for their destruction) with call_rcu() look good to me. Since we don't know whether at the time of attaching the program, we're already part of a tail call map, we need to use RCU variant. However, due to this, there won't be severely more stress on the RCU callback queue: situations with above bpf_prog_get() and bpf_prog_put() combo in practice normally won't lead to releases, but even if they would, enough effort/ cycles have to be put into loading a BPF program into the kernel already. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 85cd41878a74..9c51ec3f0f44 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7529,7 +7529,7 @@ static void perf_event_free_bpf_prog(struct perf_event *event)
prog = event->tp_event->prog;
if (prog) {
event->tp_event->prog = NULL;
- bpf_prog_put_rcu(prog);
+ bpf_prog_put(prog);
}
}