ACK: [SRU Impish/Unstable 0/3] s390x BPF JIT vulnerabilities

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com
Wed Sep 22 06:37:10 UTC 2021


On 21/09/2021 20:35, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> 
> s390 BPF JIT vulnerabilities allow the eBPF verifier to be bypassed, leading to
> possible local privilege escalation.
> 
> [Mitigation]
> 
> Disable unprivileged eBPF.
> sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=1
> 
> [Potential regression]
> 
> BPF programs might execute incorrectly, affecting seccomp, socket filters,
> tracing and other BPF users.
> 
> Ilya Leoshkevich (3):
>   s390/bpf: Fix branch shortening during codegen pass
>   s390/bpf: Fix 64-bit subtraction of the -0x80000000 constant
>   s390/bpf: Fix optimizing out zero-extensions
> 
>  arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> 

Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com>

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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