[RFC PATCH 4/9] bpf: Return EFAULT on internal errors

Luis Gerhorst luis.gerhorst at fau.de
Mon Feb 24 12:36:14 PST 2025


This prevents us from trying to recover from these on speculative paths
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Luis Gerhorst <luis.gerhorst at fau.de>
Acked-by: Henriette Herzog <henriette.herzog at rub.de>
Cc: Maximilian Ott <ott at cs.fau.de>
Cc: Milan Stephan <milan.stephan at fau.de>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index d8a95b84c566..03e27b012af3 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -11368,7 +11368,7 @@ static int check_helper_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn
 				verbose(env, "verifier internal error:");
 				verbose(env, "func %s has non-overwritten BPF_PTR_POISON return type\n",
 					func_id_name(func_id));
-				return -EINVAL;
+				return -EFAULT;
 			}
 			ret_btf = btf_vmlinux;
 			ret_btf_id = *fn->ret_btf_id;
@@ -14856,12 +14856,12 @@ static int adjust_reg_min_max_vals(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ptr_reg)) {
 		print_verifier_state(env, vstate, vstate->curframe, true);
 		verbose(env, "verifier internal error: unexpected ptr_reg\n");
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 	if (WARN_ON(!src_reg)) {
 		print_verifier_state(env, vstate, vstate->curframe, true);
 		verbose(env, "verifier internal error: no src_reg\n");
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 	err = adjust_scalar_min_max_vals(env, insn, dst_reg, *src_reg);
 	if (err)
-- 
2.48.1




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