Wind River Support Network

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  bpf: check_cond_jmp_op(): properly infer if register is null  Nicholas Carlini reported a bug when verifier can incorrectly infer that a pointer is non-null. The bug occurs when two pointers are compared and one of them has a type w/o PTR_MAYBE_NULL flag, but which allows a value to be NULL at runtime. Here is an example:    // `a` is PTR_TO_MEM | MEM_RDONLY | PTR_UNTRUSTED   // `a` is 0 at runtime.   // `b` is PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE | PTR_MAYBE_NULL   void *a = bpf_rdonly_cast(0, 0);   int  *b = bpf_map_lookup_elem(...);    if (a == b)     *b = 42;  // verifier does not catch null pointer dereference  This happens because of a special case in check_cond_jmp_op(), which attempts to strip PTR_MAYBE_NULL flags from pointer types, when processing comparisons like `rA == rB`, if either rA or rB can't be null.  The non-null property is derived based on the absence of PTR_MAYBE_NULL flag on rA's or rB's type. But that is not sufficient for types like PTR_TO_MEM, as in the example.  This patch replaces type_may_be_null() call with reg_not_null(), which contains an allowlist of types for which absence of PTR_MAYBE_NULL actually means that the value can't be NULL at runtime.  At the moment, the list in the reg_not_null() omits two types for which PTR_MAYBE_NULL is applicable: PTR_TO_XDP_SOCK and PTR_TO_BUF. In order to remain backward compatible, and assuming that only comparison between pointers of the same type makes sense, this commit extends reg_not_null(). W/o such an extension e.g. verifier_jeq_infer_not_null/null_ptr_to_map_value fails.  reg_not_null() can be extended further, but I deem that out of scope for the fix at hand. Explicit base_type(...) != PTR_TO_BTF_ID checks in the check_cond_jmp_op() can be removed with migration to reg_not_null(), but that is a behavioural change, as the special case would start matching for PTR_TO_BTF_ID that is also is_trusted_reg(). I omit the behavioural change from this commit.
Data source: kernel.org (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)

CVEs

• CVE-2026-98134