Bug 2355443 (CVE-2023-52928)

Summary: CVE-2023-52928 kernel: bpf: Skip invalid kfunc call in backtrack_insn
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-27 17:01:46 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Skip invalid kfunc call in backtrack_insn

The verifier skips invalid kfunc call in check_kfunc_call(), which
would be captured in fixup_kfunc_call() if such insn is not eliminated
by dead code elimination. However, this can lead to the following
warning in backtrack_insn(), also see [1]:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  verifier backtracking bug
  WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 8646 at kernel/bpf/verifier.c:2756 backtrack_insn
  kernel/bpf/verifier.c:2756
	__mark_chain_precision kernel/bpf/verifier.c:3065
	mark_chain_precision kernel/bpf/verifier.c:3165
	adjust_reg_min_max_vals kernel/bpf/verifier.c:10715
	check_alu_op kernel/bpf/verifier.c:10928
	do_check kernel/bpf/verifier.c:13821 [inline]
	do_check_common kernel/bpf/verifier.c:16289
  [...]

So make backtracking conservative with this by returning ENOTSUPP.

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CACkBjsaXNceR8ZjkLG=dT3P=4A8SBsg0Z5h5PWLryF5=ghKq=g@mail.gmail.com/
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2025-03-28 01:14:35 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025032718-CVE-2023-52928-e380@gregkh/T