bpf: Prevent unsafe access to the sock fields in the BPF timestamping callback

The subsequent patch will implement BPF TX timestamping. It will
call the sockops BPF program without holding the sock lock.

This breaks the current assumption that all sock ops programs will
hold the sock lock. The sock's fields of the uapi's bpf_sock_ops
requires this assumption.

To address this, a new "u8 is_locked_tcp_sock;" field is added. This
patch sets it in the current sock_ops callbacks. The "is_fullsock"
test is then replaced by the "is_locked_tcp_sock" test during
sock_ops_convert_ctx_access().

The new TX timestamping callbacks added in the subsequent patch will
not have this set. This will prevent unsafe access from the new
timestamping callbacks.

Potentially, we could allow read-only access. However, this would
require identifying which callback is read-safe-only and also requires
additional BPF instruction rewrites in the covert_ctx. Since the BPF
program can always read everything from a socket (e.g., by using
bpf_core_cast), this patch keeps it simple and disables all read
and write access to any socket fields through the bpf_sock_ops
UAPI from the new TX timestamping callback.

Moreover, note that some of the fields in bpf_sock_ops are specific
to tcp_sock, and sock_ops currently only supports tcp_sock. In
the future, UDP timestamping will be added, which will also break
this assumption. The same idea used in this patch will be reused.
Considering that the current sock_ops only supports tcp_sock, the
variable is named is_locked_"tcp"_sock.

Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072940.99994-4-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 464232a0d637..a796cf451e55 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ static void bpf_skops_hdr_opt_len(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		sock_owned_by_me(sk);
 
 		sock_ops.is_fullsock = 1;
+		sock_ops.is_locked_tcp_sock = 1;
 		sock_ops.sk = sk;
 	}
 
@@ -570,6 +571,7 @@ static void bpf_skops_write_hdr_opt(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		sock_owned_by_me(sk);
 
 		sock_ops.is_fullsock = 1;
+		sock_ops.is_locked_tcp_sock = 1;
 		sock_ops.sk = sk;
 	}