From 4540aed51b12bc13364149bf95f6ecef013197c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:12:00 +0200 Subject: bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility Yinhao et al. recently reported: Our fuzzer tool discovered an uninitialized pointer issue in the bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() function within the Linux kernel's BPF subsystem. This leads to a NULL pointer dereference when a BPF program attempts to deference the txq member of struct xdp_buff object. The test initializes two programs of BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP: progA acts as the entry point for bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() and its expected_attach_type can neither be of be BPF_XDP_DEVMAP nor BPF_XDP_CPUMAP. progA calls into a slot of a tailcall map it owns. progB's expected_attach_type must be BPF_XDP_DEVMAP to pass xdp_is_valid_access() validation. The program returns struct xdp_md's egress_ifindex, and the latter is only allowed to be accessed under mentioned expected_attach_type. progB is then inserted into the tailcall which progA calls. The underlying issue goes beyond XDP though. Another example are programs of type BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SOCK_ADDR. sock_addr_is_valid_access() as well as sock_addr_func_proto() have different logic depending on the programs' expected_attach_type. Similarly, a program attached to BPF_CGROUP_INET4_GETPEERNAME should not be allowed doing a tailcall into a program which calls bpf_bind() out of BPF which is only enabled for BPF_CGROUP_INET4_CONNECT. In short, specifying expected_attach_type allows to open up additional functionality or restrictions beyond what the basic bpf_prog_type enables. The use of tailcalls must not violate these constraints. Fix it by enforcing expected_attach_type in __bpf_prog_map_compatible(). Note that we only enforce this for tailcall maps, but not for BPF devmaps or cpumaps: There, the programs are invoked through dev_map_bpf_prog_run*() and cpu_map_bpf_prog_run*() which set up a new environment / context and therefore these situations are not prone to this issue. Fixes: 5e43f899b03a ("bpf: Check attach type at prog load time") Reported-by: Yinhao Hu Reported-by: Kaiyan Mei Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250926171201.188490-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov --- include/linux/bpf.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h index fe2a396d8ac6..a98c83346134 100644 --- a/include/linux/bpf.h +++ b/include/linux/bpf.h @@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ struct bpf_map_owner { bool xdp_has_frags; u64 storage_cookie[MAX_BPF_CGROUP_STORAGE_TYPE]; const struct btf_type *attach_func_proto; + enum bpf_attach_type expected_attach_type; }; struct bpf_map { -- cgit v1.2.3