CVE-2021-47607

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf:
Fix kernel address leakage in atomic cmpxchg’s r0 aux reg The
implementation of BPF_CMPXCHG on a high level has the following parameters:
.-[old-val] .-[new-val] BPF_R0 = cmpxchg{32,64}(DST_REG + insn->off,
BPF_R0, SRC_REG) -[mem-loc] -[old-val] Given a BPF insn can only have two
registers (dst, src), the R0 is fixed and used as an auxilliary register
for input (old value) as well as output (returning old value from memory
location). While the verifier performs a number of safety checks, it misses
to reject unprivileged programs where R0 contains a pointer as old value.
Through brute-forcing it takes about ~16sec on my machine to leak a kernel
pointer with BPF_CMPXCHG. The PoC is basically probing for kernel addresses
by storing the guessed address into the map slot as a scalar, and using the
map value pointer as R0 while SRC_REG has a canary value to detect a
matching address. Fix it by checking R0 for pointers, and reject if that’s
the case for unprivileged programs.