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From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 13:43:06 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf: verifier: prevent userspace memory access
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
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On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 1:05=E2=80=AFPM David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.c=
om> wrote:
>
> From: Alexei Starovoitov
> > Sent: 21 March 2024 06:08
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 3:55=E2=80=AFAM Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@gmai=
l.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The JITs need to implement bpf_arch_uaddress_limit() to define where
> > > the userspace addresses end for that architecture or TASK_SIZE is tak=
en
> > > as default.
> > >
> > > The implementation is as follows:
> > >
> > > REG_AX =3D  SRC_REG
> > > if(offset)
> > >         REG_AX +=3D offset;
> > > REG_AX >>=3D 32;
> > > if (REG_AX <=3D (uaddress_limit >> 32))
> > >         DST_REG =3D 0;
> > > else
> > >         DST_REG =3D *(size *)(SRC_REG + offset);
> >
> > The patch looks good, but it seems to be causing s390 CI failures.
>
> I'm confused by the need for this check (and, IIRC, some other bpf
> code that does kernel copies that can fault - and return an error).
>
> I though that the entire point of bpf was that is sanitised and
> verified everything to limit what the 'program' could do in order
> to stop it overwriting (or even reading) kernel structures that
> is wasn't supposed to access.
>
> So it just shouldn't have a address that might be (in any way)
> invalid.

bpf tracing progs can call bpf_probe_read_kernel() which
can read any kernel memory.
This is nothing but an inlined version of it.

> The only possible address verify is access_ok() to ensure that
> a uses address really is a user address.

access_ok() considerations don't apply.
We're not dealing with user memory access.