[PATCH 5.14 114/172] bpf: Exempt CAP_BPF from checks against bpf_jit_limit

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Oct 04 2021 - 09:38:03 EST


From: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 8a98ae12fbefdb583a7696de719a1d57e5e940a2 ]

When introducing CAP_BPF, bpf_jit_charge_modmem() was not changed to treat
programs with CAP_BPF as privileged for the purpose of JIT memory allocation.
This means that a program without CAP_BPF can block a program with CAP_BPF
from loading a program.

Fix this by checking bpf_capable() in bpf_jit_charge_modmem().

Fixes: 2c78ee898d8f ("bpf: Implement CAP_BPF")
Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210922111153.19843-1-lmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/bpf/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
index 0a28a8095d3e..c019611fbc8f 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ int bpf_jit_charge_modmem(u32 pages)
{
if (atomic_long_add_return(pages, &bpf_jit_current) >
(bpf_jit_limit >> PAGE_SHIFT)) {
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
+ if (!bpf_capable()) {
atomic_long_sub(pages, &bpf_jit_current);
return -EPERM;
}
--
2.33.0