CVE-2022-49840

bpf, test_run: Fix alignment problem in bpf_prog_test_run_skb()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf, test_run: Fix alignment problem in bpf_prog_test_run_skb()

We got a syzkaller problem because of aarch64 alignment fault if KFENCE enabled. When the size from user bpf program is an odd number, like 399, 407, etc, it will cause the struct skb_shared_info's unaligned access. As seen below:

BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in __skb_clone+0x23c/0x2a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1032

Use-after-free read at 0xffff6254fffac077 (in kfence-#213): __lse_atomic_add arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h:26 [inline] arch_atomic_add arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h:28 [inline] arch_atomic_inc include/linux/atomic-arch-fallback.h:270 [inline] atomic_inc include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:241 [inline] __skb_clone+0x23c/0x2a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1032 skb_clone+0xf4/0x214 net/core/skbuff.c:1481 ____bpf_clone_redirect net/core/filter.c:2433 [inline] bpf_clone_redirect+0x78/0x1c0 net/core/filter.c:2420 bpf_prog_d3839dd9068ceb51+0x80/0x330 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:728 [inline] bpf_test_run+0x3c0/0x6c0 net/bpf/test_run.c:53 bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0x638/0xa7c net/bpf/test_run.c:594 bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3148 [inline] __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4441 [inline] __se_sys_bpf+0xad0/0x1634 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381

kfence-#213: 0xffff6254fffac000-0xffff6254fffac196, size=407, cache=kmalloc-512

allocated by task 15074 on cpu 0 at 1342.585390s: kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:675 [inline] bpf_test_init.isra.0+0xac/0x290 net/bpf/test_run.c:191 bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0x11c/0xa7c net/bpf/test_run.c:512 bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3148 [inline] __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4441 [inline] __se_sys_bpf+0xad0/0x1634 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381 __arm64_sys_bpf+0x50/0x60 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381

To fix the problem, we adjust @size so that (@size + @hearoom) is a multiple of SMP_CACHE_BYTES. So we make sure the struct skb_shared_info is aligned to a cache line.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4 to before 047824a730699c6c66df43306b80f700c9dfc2fdAffected
  • 1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4 to before 730fb1ef974a13915bc7651364d8b3318891cd70Affected
  • 1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4 to before 7a704dbfd3735304e261f2787c52fbc7c3884736Affected
  • 1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4 to before e60f37a1d379c821c17b08f366412dce9ef3d99fAffected
  • 1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4 to before eaa8edd86514afac9deb9bf9a5053e74f37edf40Affected
  • 1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4 to before 1b597f2d6a55e9f549989913860ad5170da04964Affected
  • 1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4 to before d3fd203f36d46aa29600a72d57a1b61af80e4a25Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.12Affected
  • before 4.12Not affected
  • 4.14.300 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.267 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.225 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.156 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.80 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.10 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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