[PATCH 6.12 017/337] bpf: Reset register bounds before narrowing retval range in check_mem_access()

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.patches,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tristan Madani <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 5e0b273e0a62cc04ec338c7b502797c66c2ed42a ]

When the BPF verifier processes a context load of an LSM hook return
value, it calls __mark_reg_s32_range() to narrow the register to the
hook's valid range. However, __mark_reg_s32_range() intersects the new
range with the register's existing bounds using max_t()/min_t() rather
than replacing them.

If the destination register carries stale bounds from a prior instruction
(e.g. BPF_MOV64_IMM), the intersection can produce a range narrower than
reality. The verifier then believes it knows the register's exact value,
while at runtime the actual hook return value is loaded, creating a
verifier/runtime mismatch that can be used to bypass BPF memory safety
checks.

The else branch already calls mark_reg_unknown() to reset register state
before any narrowing. Apply the same reset in the is_retval path so
stale bounds are cleared before __mark_reg_s32_range() intersects.

Fixes: 5d99e198be27 ("bpf, lsm: Add check for BPF LSM return value")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 8c3c4ab989a05..77183b436da5e 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -7234,6 +7234,7 @@ static int check_mem_access(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int insn_idx, u32 regn
 			 */
 			if (reg_type == SCALAR_VALUE) {
 				if (is_retval && get_func_retval_range(env->prog, &range)) {
+					mark_reg_unknown(env, regs, value_regno);
 					err = __mark_reg_s32_range(env, regs, value_regno,
 								   range.minval, range.maxval);
 					if (err)
-- 
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