CVE-2021-47300 (Moderate severity, published 2024-05-20)
CVSS score: 6 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)
CWE: CWE-125
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix tail_call_reachable rejection for interpreter when jit failed

During testing of f263a81451c1 ("bpf: Track subprog poke descriptors correctly
and fix use-after-free") under various failure conditions, for example, when
jit_subprogs() fails and tries to clean up the program to be run under the
interpreter, we ran into the following freeze:

  [...]
  #127/8 tailcall_bpf2bpf_3:FAIL
  [...]
  [   92.041251] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ___bpf_prog_run+0x1b9d/0x2e20
  [   92.042408] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800da67f68 by task test_progs/682
  [   92.043707]
  [   92.044030] CPU: 1 PID: 682 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G   O   5.13.0-53301-ge6c08cb33a30-dirty #87
  [   92.045542] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
  [   92.046785] Call Trace:
  [   92.047171]  ? __bpf_prog_run_args64+0xc0/0xc0
  [   92.047773]  ? __bpf_prog_run_args32+0x8b/0xb0
  [   92.048389]  ? __bpf_prog_run_args64+0xc0/0xc0
  [   92.049019]  ? ktime_get+0x117/0x130
  [...] // few hundred [similar] lines more
  [   92.659025]  ? ktime_get+0x117/0x130
  [   92.659845]  ? __bpf_prog_run_args64+0xc0/0xc0
  [   92.660738]  ? __bpf_prog_run_args32+0x8b/0xb0
  [   92.661528]  ? __bpf_prog_run_args64+0xc0/0xc0
  [   92.662378]  ? print_usage_bug+0x50/0x50
  [   92.663221]  ? print_usage_bug+0x50/0x50
  [   92.664077]  ? bpf_ksym_find+0x9c/0xe0
  [   92.664887]  ? ktime_get+0x117/0x130
  [   92.665624]  ? kernel_text_address+0xf5/0x100
  [   92.666529]  ? __kernel_text_address+0xe/0x30
  [   92.667725]  ? unwind_get_return_address+0x2f/0x50
  [   92.668854]  ? ___bpf_prog_run+0x15d4/0x2e20
  [   92.670185]  ? ktime_get+0x117/0x130
  [   92.671130]  ? __bpf_prog_run_args64+0xc0/0xc0
  [   92.672020]  ? __bpf_prog_run_args32+0x8b/0xb0
  [   92.672860]  ? __bpf_prog_run_args64+0xc0/0xc0
  [   92.675159]  ? ktime_get+0x117/0x130
  [   92.677074]  ? lock_is_held_type+0xd5/0x130
  [   92.678662]  ? ___bpf_prog_run+0x15d4/0x2e20
  [   92.680046]  ? ktime_get+0x117/0x130
  [   92.681285]  ? __bpf_prog_run32+0x6b/0x90
  [   92.682601]  ? __bpf_prog_run64+0x90/0x90
  [   92.683636]  ? lock_downgrade+0x370/0x370
  [   92.684647]  ? mark_held_locks+0x44/0x90
  [   92.685652]  ? ktime_get+0x117/0x130
  [   92.686752]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x79/0x100
  [   92.688004]  ? ktime_get+0x117/0x130
  [   92.688573]  ? __cant_migrate+0x2b/0x80
  [   92.689192]  ? bpf_test_run+0x2f4/0x510
  [   92.689869]  ? bpf_test_timer_continue+0x1c0/0x1c0
  [   92.690856]  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x90/0x90
  [   92.691506]  ? __kasan_slab_alloc+0x61/0x80
  [   92.692128]  ? eth_type_trans+0x128/0x240
  [   92.692737]  ? __build_skb+0x46/0x50
  [   92.693252]  ? bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0x65e/0xc50
  [   92.693954]  ? bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp+0x2d0/0x2d0
  [   92.694639]  ? __fget_light+0xa1/0x100
  [   92.695162]  ? bpf_prog_inc+0x23/0x30
  [   92.695685]  ? __sys_bpf+0xb40/0x2c80
  [   92.696324]  ? bpf_link_get_from_fd+0x90/0x90
  [   92.697150]  ? mark_held_locks+0x24/0x90
  [   92.698007]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x124/0x220
  [   92.699045]  ? finish_task_switch+0xe6/0x370
  [   92.700072]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x79/0x100
  [   92.701233]  ? finish_task_switch+0x11d/0x370
  [   92.702264]  ? __switch_to+0x2c0/0x740
  [   92.703148]  ? mark_held_locks+0x24/0x90
  [   92.704155]  ? __x64_sys_bpf+0x45/0x50
  [   92.705146]  ? do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
  [   92.706953]  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
  [...]

Turns out that the program rejection from e411901c0b77 ("bpf: allow for tailcalls
in BPF subprograms for x64 JIT") is buggy since env->prog->aux->tail_call_reachable
is never true. Commit ebf7d1f508a7 ("bpf, x64: rework pro/epilogue and tailcall
handling in JIT") added a tracker into check_max_stack_depth() which propagates
the tail_call_reachable condition throughout the subprograms. This info is then
assigned to the subprogram's 
---truncated---
Statement: This vulnerability is rated as a moderate severity because an out-of-bounds memory access, which could lead to crashes or unexpected behavior, but does not provide direct mechanisms for unauthorized access or data manipulation.
Mitigation: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.