[PATCH bpf-next 03/11] bpf: Raise the bound on a program's signature size

Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.bpf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
signature_size is bounded by KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE, which is 8 KiB on a
4 KiB page system. Back then we chose it somewhat arbitrarily and was
picked when a BPF program signature was RSA or ECDSA. ML-DSA (FIPS-204)
verification is wired through the X.509 and PKCS#7 parsers, and BPF
reaches them too via verify_pkcs7_signature() without having to know the
concrete algorithm. The bound becomes a bit too small, thus add an
explicit BPF_PROG_MAX_SIGNATURE_SIZE of 64 KiB and use that instead
to cover all options.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c                              | 14 +++++++++-----
 .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/signed_loader.c       |  5 +++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index a93a8dc427d8..575c4e5e4443 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -20972,6 +20972,13 @@ int bpf_fixup_kfunc_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Upper bound on the PKCS#7 signature blob passed with a program. Comfortably
+ * above the largest signature the kernel can verify, and far below anything
+ * that would make rejecting a load expensive.
+ */
+#define BPF_PROG_MAX_SIGNATURE_SIZE	(64 * 1024)
+
 static enum bpf_sig_keyring bpf_classify_keyring(s32 keyring_id)
 {
 	switch (keyring_id) {
@@ -21011,13 +21018,10 @@ static int bpf_prog_verify_signature(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 	u64 data_sz;
 	int err = 0;
 
-	/*
-	 * Don't attempt to use kmalloc_large or vmalloc for signatures.
-	 * Practical signature for BPF program should be below this limit.
-	 */
 	if (!attr->signature_size ||
-	    attr->signature_size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)
+	    attr->signature_size > BPF_PROG_MAX_SIGNATURE_SIZE)
 		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (!system_keyring_id_check(attr->keyring_id)) {
 		key = bpf_lookup_system_key(attr->keyring_id);
 	} else {
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/signed_loader.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/signed_loader.c
index 77381d345435..0c5294738d6c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/signed_loader.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/signed_loader.c
@@ -571,8 +571,9 @@ static void signature_too_large(void)
 
 	if (gen_loader_fixture_init(&f) == 0) {
 		/*
-		 * signature_size beyond the kernel's bound (KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)
-		 * is rejected before the buffer is read.
+		 * signature_size beyond the kernel's bound
+		 * (BPF_PROG_MAX_SIGNATURE_SIZE) is rejected before the buffer
+		 * is read.
 		 */
 		fd = load_loader(f.gopts.insns, f.gopts.insns_sz, -1, junk,
 				 64 << 20, KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, 0);
-- 
2.43.0
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