Bug 2425144 (CVE-2023-54086)

Summary: CVE-2023-54086 kernel: bpf: Add preempt_count_{sub,add} into btf id deny list
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 14:06:12 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Add preempt_count_{sub,add} into btf id deny list

The recursion check in __bpf_prog_enter* and __bpf_prog_exit*
leave preempt_count_{sub,add} unprotected. When attaching trampoline to
them we get panic as follows,

[  867.843050] BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at 0000000009d325cf (stack is 0000000046a46a15..00000000537e7b28)
[  867.843064] stack guard page: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[  867.843067] CPU: 8 PID: 11009 Comm: trace Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.2.0+ #4
[  867.843100] Call Trace:
[  867.843101]  <TASK>
[  867.843104]  asm_exc_int3+0x3a/0x40
[  867.843108] RIP: 0010:preempt_count_sub+0x1/0xa0
[  867.843135]  __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x17/0x90
[  867.843148]  bpf_trampoline_6442468108_0+0x2e/0x1000
[  867.843154]  ? preempt_count_sub+0x1/0xa0
[  867.843157]  preempt_count_sub+0x5/0xa0
[  867.843159]  ? migrate_enable+0xac/0xf0
[  867.843164]  __bpf_prog_exit_recur+0x2d/0x40
[  867.843168]  bpf_trampoline_6442468108_0+0x55/0x1000
...
[  867.843788]  preempt_count_sub+0x5/0xa0
[  867.843793]  ? migrate_enable+0xac/0xf0
[  867.843829]  __bpf_prog_exit_recur+0x2d/0x40
[  867.843837] BUG: IRQ stack guard page was hit at 0000000099bd8228 (stack is 00000000b23e2bc4..000000006d95af35)
[  867.843841] BUG: IRQ stack guard page was hit at 000000005ae07924 (stack is 00000000ffd69623..0000000014eb594c)
[  867.843843] BUG: IRQ stack guard page was hit at 00000000028320f0 (stack is 00000000034b6438..0000000078d1bcec)
[  867.843842]  bpf_trampoline_6442468108_0+0x55/0x1000
...

That is because in __bpf_prog_exit_recur, the preempt_count_{sub,add} are
called after prog->active is decreased.

Fixing this by adding these two functions into btf ids deny list.