[PATCH bpf-next v2 06/13] bpf: Reject callbacks returning more than 8 bytes
Yonghong Song <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 13:35:53 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.bpf |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
A callback handed to a helper or a kfunc (bpf_loop(), bpf_timer_set_callback(), bpf_for_each_map_elem(), ...) is invoked through bpf_callback_t, and an exception callback is invoked by bpf_throw() through u64 (*bpf_exception_cb)(u64 cookie, u64 sp, u64 bp, u64, u64); Both prototypes yield a single u64 in R0, and neither caller has any notion of a second return register, so a callback returning a value in the R0:R2 pair would have the upper half of its return value silently dropped. Reject both at load time: - check_ld_imm(): a callback is materialized as PTR_TO_FUNC by an ld_imm64 pointing at its subprogram, so the subprogram's return convention can be checked where the callback pointer is created, before it ever reaches a helper or kfunc argument. - do_check_common(): an exception callback is not referenced by a PTR_TO_FUNC, it is named by a BTF decl_tag and verified on its own, so check it as its frame is set up, next to the existing "cannot return void" and single-argument checks. Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <[email protected]> --- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c index 282aee7fc44c..5584178a0e1c 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c @@ -16426,6 +16426,11 @@ static int check_ld_imm(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn) verbose(env, "callback function not static\n"); return -EINVAL; } + if (bpf_ret_reg_pair(env, subprogno)) { + verbose(env, + "callback function with >8-byte return value is not supported\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } dst_reg->type = PTR_TO_FUNC; dst_reg->subprogno = subprogno; @@ -18650,6 +18655,12 @@ static int do_check_common(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int subprog) ret = -EINVAL; goto out; } + if (bpf_ret_reg_pair(env, subprog)) { + verbose(env, + "exception cb cannot return value larger than 8 bytes\n"); + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } /* Also ensure the callback only has a single scalar argument. */ if (sub->arg_cnt != 1 || sub->args[0].arg_type != ARG_ANYTHING) { -- 2.53.0-Meta