ACK: [SRU][F][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2024-26885

[Manuel Diewald]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 03:14:37PM +0900, Koichiro Den wrote:
> [Impact]
> 
> bpf: Fix DEVMAP_HASH overflow check on 32-bit arches
> 
> The devmap code allocates a number hash buckets equal to the next power
> of two of the max_entries value provided when creating the map. When
> rounding up to the next power of two, the 32-bit variable storing the
> number of buckets can overflow, and the code checks for overflow by
> checking if the truncated 32-bit value is equal to 0. However, on 32-bit
> arches the rounding up itself can overflow mid-way through, because it
> ends up doing a left-shift of 32 bits on an unsigned long value. If the
> size of an unsigned long is four bytes, this is undefined behaviour, so
> there is no guarantee that we'll end up with a nice and tidy 0-value at
> the end.
> 
> Syzbot managed to turn this into a crash on arm32 by creating a
> DEVMAP_HASH with max_entries > 0x80000000 and then trying to update it.
> Fix this by moving the overflow check to before the rounding up
> operation.
> 
> [Backport]
> 
> There were conflicts due to missing commits:
> - commit 844f157f6c0a ("bpf: Eliminate rlimit-based memory accounting for devmap maps")
> - commit 96360004b862 ("xdp: Make devmap flush_list common for all map instances")
> 
> and resolved these conflicts by adjusting contexts without merging them
> to avoid unnecessary changes to the code base.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Noble:  not affected
> Jammy:  fixed via stable
> Focal:  Backport - adjusted contexts due to missing commits, see [Backport]
> Bionic: not affected
> Xenial: not affected
> Trusty: not affected
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
> Compile and boot tested.
> 
> Also (stress) tested using the syzbot reproducer [1] on my local armhf
> focal qemu instance, with and without this backport, though it did not
> trigger the reported issue even without the backport, likely due to a
> compiler difference from syzbot (i.e. the original overflow checking
> seemed to work even without the backport). I've not investigated more
> into it, but still the test confirms the robustness of this backport.
> 
> [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8cd36f6b65f3cafd400a
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> This fix potentially affects 32-bit arches, an issue with this fix would
> cause underfined behaviour when creating a DEVMAP_HASH with max_entries
> greater than 0x80000000.
> 
> 
> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen (1):
>   bpf: Fix DEVMAP_HASH overflow check on 32-bit arches
> 
>  kernel/bpf/devmap.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
> 
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Acked-by: Manuel Diewald <manuel.diewald at canonical.com>

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 Manuel
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