From 3d429cb1278e995e22995ef117fa96d223a67e93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:06:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] bpf: Check the helper function is valid in get_helper_proto [ Upstream commit e4414b01c1cd9887bbde92f946c1ba94e40d6d64 ] kernel test robot reported verifier bug [1] where the helper func pointer could be NULL due to disabled config option. As Alexei suggested we could check on that in get_helper_proto directly. Marking tail_call helper func with BPF_PTR_POISON, because it is unused by design. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202507160818.68358831-lkp@intel.com Reported-by: kernel test robot Reported-by: syzbot+a9ed3d9132939852d0df@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Paul Chaignon Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250814200655.945632-1-jolsa@kernel.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202507160818.68358831-lkp@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- kernel/bpf/core.c | 5 ++++- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c index 9380e0fd5e4a..1f51c8f20722 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/core.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c @@ -2953,7 +2953,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bpf_event_output); /* Always built-in helper functions. */ const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_tail_call_proto = { - .func = NULL, + /* func is unused for tail_call, we set it to pass the + * get_helper_proto check + */ + .func = BPF_PTR_POISON, .gpl_only = false, .ret_type = RET_VOID, .arg1_type = ARG_PTR_TO_CTX, diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c index 24ae8f33e5d7..6e22abf3326b 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c @@ -10465,7 +10465,7 @@ static int get_helper_proto(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int func_id, return -EINVAL; *ptr = env->ops->get_func_proto(func_id, env->prog); - return *ptr ? 0 : -EINVAL; + return *ptr && (*ptr)->func ? 0 : -EINVAL; } static int check_helper_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn,