CVE-2025-21852

net: Add rx_skb of kfree_skb to raw_tp_null_args[].

Medium · published March 12, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: Add rx_skb of kfree_skb to raw_tp_null_args[].

Yan Zhai reported a BPF prog could trigger a null-ptr-deref [0]

in trace_kfree_skb if the prog does not check if rx_sk is NULL.

Commit c53795d48ee8 ("net: add rx_sk to trace_kfree_skb") added

rx_sk to trace_kfree_skb, but rx_sk is optional and could be NULL.

Let's add kfree_skb to raw_tp_null_args[] to let the BPF verifier

validate such a prog and prevent the issue.

Now we fail to load such a prog:

libbpf: prog 'drop': -- BEGIN PROG LOAD LOG --

0: R1=ctx() R10=fp0

; int BPF_PROG(drop, struct sk_buff *skb, void *location, @ kfree_skb_sk_null.bpf.c:21

0: (79) r3 = *(u64 *)(r1 +24)

func 'kfree_skb' arg3 has btf_id 5253 type STRUCT 'sock'

1: R1=ctx() R3_w=trusted_ptr_or_null_sock(id=1)

; bpf_printk("sk: %d, %d\n", sk, sk->__sk_common.skc_family); @ kfree_skb_sk_null.bpf.c:24

1: (69) r4 = *(u16 *)(r3 +16)

R3 invalid mem access 'trusted_ptr_or_null_'

processed 2 insns (limit 1000000) max_states_per_insn 0 total_states 0 peak_states 0 mark_read 0

-- END PROG LOAD LOG --

Note this fix requires commit 838a10bd2ebf ("bpf: Augment raw_tp

arguments with PTR_MAYBE_NULL").

[0]:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010

PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

PGD 0 P4D 0

PREEMPT SMP

RIP: 0010:bpf_prog_5e21a6db8fcff1aa_drop+0x10/0x2d

Call Trace:

<TASK>

? __die+0x1f/0x60

? page_fault_oops+0x148/0x420

? search_bpf_extables+0x5b/0x70

? fixup_exception+0x27/0x2c0

? exc_page_fault+0x75/0x170

? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30

? bpf_prog_5e21a6db8fcff1aa_drop+0x10/0x2d

bpf_trace_run4+0x68/0xd0

? unix_stream_connect+0x1f4/0x6f0

sk_skb_reason_drop+0x90/0x120

unix_stream_connect+0x1f4/0x6f0

__sys_connect+0x7f/0xb0

__x64_sys_connect+0x14/0x20

do_syscall_64+0x47/0xc30

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00216 · 11.4th percentile
Published
2025-03-12T09:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 MAR 09:42Z
    net: Add rx_skb of kfree_skb to raw_tp_null_args[].
    cvelistv5