Ricardo reported a KASAN discovered use after free in v6.6-stable.
The syzbot starts a BPF program via xdp_test_run_batch() which assigns ri->tgt_value via dev_hash_map_redirect() and the return code isn't XDP_REDIRECT it looks like nonsense. So the output in bpf_warn_invalid_xdp_action() appears once. Then the TUN driver runs another BPF program (on the same CPU) which returns XDP_REDIRECT without setting ri->tgt_value first. It invokes bpf_trace_printk() to print four characters and obtain the required return value. This is enough to get xdp_do_redirect() invoked which then accesses the pointer in tgt_value which might have been already deallocated.
This problem does not affect upstream because since commit 401cb7dae8130 ("net: Reference bpf_redirect_info via task_struct on PREEMPT_RT.")
the per-CPU variable is referenced via task's task_struct and exists on the stack during NAPI callback. Therefore it is cleared once before the first invocation and remains valid within the RCU section of the NAPI callback.
Instead of performing the huge backport of the commit (plus its fix ups) here is an alternative version which only resets the variable in question prior invoking the BPF program.
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke@kernel.org Reported-by: Ricardo Cañuelo Navarro rcn@igalia.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250226-20250204-kasan-slab-use-after-free-read... Fixes: 97f91a7cf04ff ("bpf: add bpf_redirect_map helper routine") Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de ---
I discussed this with Toke, thread starts at https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250313183911.SPAmGLyw@linutronix.de/
The commit, which this by accident, is part of v6.11-rc1. I added the commit introducing map redirects as the origin of the problem which is v4.14-rc1. The code is a bit different there it seems to work similar.
Greg, feel free to decide if this is worth a CVE.
include/net/xdp.h | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/net/xdp.h b/include/net/xdp.h index de08c8e0d1348..b39ac83618a55 100644 --- a/include/net/xdp.h +++ b/include/net/xdp.h @@ -486,7 +486,14 @@ static __always_inline u32 bpf_prog_run_xdp(const struct bpf_prog *prog, * under local_bh_disable(), which provides the needed RCU protection * for accessing map entries. */ - u32 act = __bpf_prog_run(prog, xdp, BPF_DISPATCHER_FUNC(xdp)); + struct bpf_redirect_info *ri = this_cpu_ptr(&bpf_redirect_info); + u32 act; + + if (ri->map_id || ri->map_type) { + ri->map_id = 0; + ri->map_type = BPF_MAP_TYPE_UNSPEC; + } + act = __bpf_prog_run(prog, xdp, BPF_DISPATCHER_FUNC(xdp));
if (static_branch_unlikely(&bpf_master_redirect_enabled_key)) { if (act == XDP_TX && netif_is_bond_slave(xdp->rxq->dev))