bpf: Mark the zero register precise for a register-form NULL check

check_cond_jmp_op() accepts "if rA <op> rB" as a NULL check for a
nullable pointer rA when rB is a scalar known to be zero,
lifts PTR_MAYBE_NULL from rA in the corresponding branch and does not
mark rB precise. Consider the following program:

  r0 = bpf_get_prandom_u32();
  r6 = 1;                  /* the r6 == 0 path is explored first */
  if (r0 == 0) goto 1f;
  r6 = 0;
1:
  r0 = bpf_map_lookup_elem(map, &0);  /* absent, NULL at runtime */
  if (r0 == r6) goto 2f;   /* taken as a NULL check for r0       */
  *(u8 *)(r0 + 0);         /* verifier: map value; runtime: zero */
2:
  return 0;

The r6 == 0 path is explored first and the dereference is accepted.
The r6 == 1 path is pruned at the checkpoint recorded for (1),
so the comparison is never verified with a non-zero r6. At runtime a
failed lookup returns NULL, NULL != 1 takes the non-NULL edge and the
program dereferences a pointer that is zero.

Fixes: 2f4cb53eed44 ("bpf: detect non null pointer with register operand in JEQ/JNE.")
Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com>
Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260904083325.2083493-7-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 303368460ec1..fde5d046b6e3 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -17052,6 +17052,15 @@ static int check_cond_jmp_op(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 	    type_may_be_null(dst_reg->type) &&
 	    ((BPF_SRC(insn->code) == BPF_K && insn->imm == 0) ||
 	     (BPF_SRC(insn->code) == BPF_X && bpf_register_is_null(src_reg)))) {
+		/*
+		 * For BPF_X the zero is a property of this execution path,
+		 * hence src_reg has to be precise.
+		 */
+		if (BPF_SRC(insn->code) == BPF_X) {
+			err = mark_chain_precision(env, insn->src_reg);
+			if (err)
+				return err;
+		}
 		/* Mark all identical registers in each branch as either
 		 * safe or unknown depending R == 0 or R != 0 conditional.
 		 */