When __lookup_instance() allocates a func_instance structure but fails
to allocate the must_write_set array, it returns an error without freeing
the previously allocated func_instance. This causes a memory leak of 192
bytes (sizeof(struct func_instance)) each time this error path is triggered.
Fix by freeing 'result' on must_write_set allocation failure.
Fixes: b3698c356a ("bpf: callchain sensitive stack liveness tracking using CFG")
Reported-by: BPF Runtime Fuzzer (BRF)
Signed-off-by: Shardul Bankar <shardulsb08@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016063330.4107547-1-shardulsb08@gmail.com
The following kmemleak splat:
[ 8.105530] kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xff11000100e918c0 as Black
[ 8.106521] Call Trace:
[ 8.106521] <TASK>
[ 8.106521] dump_stack_lvl+0x4b/0x70
[ 8.106521] kvfree_call_rcu+0xcb/0x3b0
[ 8.106521] ? hrtimer_cancel+0x21/0x40
[ 8.106521] bpf_obj_free_fields+0x193/0x200
[ 8.106521] htab_map_update_elem+0x29c/0x410
[ 8.106521] bpf_prog_cfc8cd0f42c04044_overwrite_cb+0x47/0x4b
[ 8.106521] bpf_prog_8c30cd7c4db2e963_overwrite_timer+0x65/0x86
[ 8.106521] bpf_prog_test_run_syscall+0xe1/0x2a0
happens due to the combination of features and fixes, but mainly due to
commit 6d78b4473c ("bpf: Tell memcg to use allow_spinning=false path in bpf_timer_init()")
It's using __GFP_HIGH, which instructs slub/kmemleak internals to skip
kmemleak_alloc_recursive() on allocation, so subsequent kfree_rcu()->
kvfree_call_rcu()->kmemleak_ignore() complains with the above splat.
To fix this imbalance, replace bpf_map_kmalloc_node() with
kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_rcu() with call_rcu() + kfree_nolock() to
make sure that the objects allocated with kmalloc_nolock() are freed
with kfree_nolock() rather than the implicit kfree() that kfree_rcu()
uses internally.
Note, the kmalloc_nolock() happens under bpf_spin_lock_irqsave(), so
it will always fail in PREEMPT_RT. This is not an issue at the moment,
since bpf_timers are disabled in PREEMPT_RT. In the future
bpf_spin_lock will be replaced with state machine similar to
bpf_task_work.
Fixes: 6d78b4473c ("bpf: Tell memcg to use allow_spinning=false path in bpf_timer_init()")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251015000700.28988-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
When unpinning a BPF hash table (htab or htab_lru) that contains internal
structures (timer, workqueue, or task_work) in its values, a BUG warning
is triggered:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:244
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 14, name: ksoftirqd/0
...
The issue arises from the interaction between BPF object unpinning and
RCU callback mechanisms:
1. BPF object unpinning uses ->free_inode() which schedules cleanup via
call_rcu(), deferring the actual freeing to an RCU callback that
executes within the RCU_SOFTIRQ context.
2. During cleanup of hash tables containing internal structures,
htab_map_free_internal_structs() is invoked, which includes
cond_resched() or cond_resched_rcu() calls to yield the CPU during
potentially long operations.
However, cond_resched() or cond_resched_rcu() cannot be safely called from
atomic RCU softirq context, leading to the BUG warning when attempting
to reschedule.
Fix this by changing from ->free_inode() to ->destroy_inode() and rename
bpf_free_inode() to bpf_destroy_inode() for BPF objects (prog, map, link).
This allows direct inode freeing without RCU callback scheduling,
avoiding the invalid context warning.
Reported-by: Le Chen <tom2cat@sjtu.edu.cn>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1444123482.1827743.1750996347470.JavaMail.zimbra@sjtu.edu.cn/
Fixes: 68134668c1 ("bpf: Add map side support for bpf timers.")
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: KaFai Wan <kafai.wan@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251008102628.808045-2-kafai.wan@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf
Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:
- Fix selftests/bpf (typo, conflicts) and unbreak BPF CI (Jiri Olsa)
- Remove linux/unaligned.h dependency for libbpf_sha256 (Andrii
Nakryiko) and add a test (Eric Biggers)
- Reject negative offsets for ALU operations in the verifier (Yazhou
Tang) and add a test (Eduard Zingerman)
- Skip scalar adjustment for BPF_NEG operation if destination register
is a pointer (Brahmajit Das) and add a test (KaFai Wan)
* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
libbpf: Fix missing #pragma in libbpf_utils.c
selftests/bpf: Add tests for rejection of ALU ops with negative offsets
selftests/bpf: Add test for libbpf_sha256()
bpf: Reject negative offsets for ALU ops
libbpf: remove linux/unaligned.h dependency for libbpf_sha256()
libbpf: move libbpf_sha256() implementation into libbpf_utils.c
libbpf: move libbpf_errstr() into libbpf_utils.c
libbpf: remove unused libbpf_strerror_r and STRERR_BUFSIZE
libbpf: make libbpf_errno.c into more generic libbpf_utils.c
selftests/bpf: Add test for BPF_NEG alu on CONST_PTR_TO_MAP
bpf: Skip scalar adjustment for BPF_NEG if dst is a pointer
selftests/bpf: Fix realloc size in bpf_get_addrs
selftests/bpf: Fix typo in subtest_basic_usdt after merge conflict
selftests/bpf: Fix open-coded gettid syscall in uprobe syscall tests
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Merge tag 'slab-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
- A new layer for caching objects for allocation and free via percpu
arrays called sheaves.
The aim is to combine the good parts of SLAB (lower-overhead and
simpler percpu caching, compared to SLUB) without the past issues
with arrays for freeing remote NUMA node objects and their flushing.
It also allows more efficient kfree_rcu(), and cheaper object
preallocations for cases where the exact number of objects is
unknown, but an upper bound is.
Currently VMAs and maple nodes are using this new caching, with a
plan to enable it for all caches and remove the complex SLUB fastpath
based on cpu (partial) slabs and this_cpu_cmpxchg_double().
(Vlastimil Babka, with Liam Howlett and Pedro Falcato for the maple
tree changes)
- Re-entrant kmalloc_nolock(), which allows opportunistic allocations
from NMI and tracing/kprobe contexts.
Building on prior page allocator and memcg changes, it will result in
removing BPF-specific caches on top of slab (Alexei Starovoitov)
- Various fixes and cleanups. (Kuan-Wei Chiu, Matthew Wilcox, Suren
Baghdasaryan, Ye Liu)
* tag 'slab-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (40 commits)
slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().
slab: Reuse first bit for OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL
slab: Make slub local_(try)lock more precise for LOCKDEP
mm: Introduce alloc_frozen_pages_nolock()
mm: Allow GFP_ACCOUNT to be used in alloc_pages_nolock().
locking/local_lock: Introduce local_lock_is_locked().
maple_tree: Convert forking to use the sheaf interface
maple_tree: Add single node allocation support to maple state
maple_tree: Prefilled sheaf conversion and testing
tools/testing: Add support for prefilled slab sheafs
maple_tree: Replace mt_free_one() with kfree()
maple_tree: Use kfree_rcu in ma_free_rcu
testing/radix-tree/maple: Hack around kfree_rcu not existing
tools/testing: include maple-shim.c in maple.c
maple_tree: use percpu sheaves for maple_node_cache
mm, vma: use percpu sheaves for vm_area_struct cache
tools/testing: Add support for changes to slab for sheaves
slab: allow NUMA restricted allocations to use percpu sheaves
tools/testing/vma: Implement vm_refcnt reset
slab: skip percpu sheaves for remote object freeing
...
When verifying BPF programs, the check_alu_op() function validates
instructions with ALU operations. The 'offset' field in these
instructions is a signed 16-bit integer.
The existing check 'insn->off > 1' was intended to ensure the offset is
either 0, or 1 for BPF_MOD/BPF_DIV. However, because 'insn->off' is
signed, this check incorrectly accepts all negative values (e.g., -1).
This commit tightens the validation by changing the condition to
'(insn->off != 0 && insn->off != 1)'. This ensures that any value
other than the explicitly permitted 0 and 1 is rejected, hardening the
verifier against malformed BPF programs.
Co-developed-by: Shenghao Yuan <shenghaoyuan0928@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Shenghao Yuan <shenghaoyuan0928@163.com>
Co-developed-by: Tianci Cao <ziye@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tianci Cao <ziye@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Yazhou Tang <tangyazhou518@outlook.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Fixes: ec0e2da95f ("bpf: Support new signed div/mod instructions.")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_70D024BAE70A0A309A4781694C7B764B0608@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
In check_alu_op(), the verifier currently calls check_reg_arg() and
adjust_scalar_min_max_vals() unconditionally for BPF_NEG operations.
However, if the destination register holds a pointer, these scalar
adjustments are unnecessary and potentially incorrect.
This patch adds a check to skip the adjustment logic when the destination
register contains a pointer.
Reported-by: syzbot+d36d5ae81e1b0a53ef58@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d36d5ae81e1b0a53ef58
Fixes: aced132599 ("bpf: Add range tracking for BPF_NEG")
Suggested-by: KaFai Wan <kafai.wan@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brahmajit Das <listout@listout.xyz>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251001191739.2323644-2-listout@listout.xyz
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next
Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
- Support pulling non-linear xdp data with bpf_xdp_pull_data() kfunc
(Amery Hung)
Applied as a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees.
- Support reading skb metadata via bpf_dynptr (Jakub Sitnicki)
Also a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees.
- Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility (Daniel
Borkmann)
- Replace path-sensitive with path-insensitive live stack analysis in
the verifier (Eduard Zingerman)
This is a significant change in the verification logic. More details,
motivation, long term plans are in the cover letter/merge commit.
- Support signed BPF programs (KP Singh)
This is another major feature that took years to materialize.
Algorithm details are in the cover letter/marge commit
- Add support for may_goto instruction to s390 JIT (Ilya Leoshkevich)
- Add support for may_goto instruction to arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan)
- Fix USDT SIB argument handling in libbpf (Jiawei Zhao)
- Allow uprobe-bpf program to change context registers (Jiri Olsa)
- Support signed loads from BPF arena (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi and
Puranjay Mohan)
- Allow access to union arguments in tracing programs (Leon Hwang)
- Optimize rcu_read_lock() + migrate_disable() combination where it's
used in BPF subsystem (Menglong Dong)
- Introduce bpf_task_work_schedule*() kfuncs to schedule deferred
execution of BPF callback in the context of a specific task using the
kernel’s task_work infrastructure (Mykyta Yatsenko)
- Enforce RCU protection for KF_RCU_PROTECTED kfuncs (Kumar Kartikeya
Dwivedi)
- Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi)
- Improve the precision of tnum multiplier verifier operation
(Nandakumar Edamana)
- Use tnums to improve is_branch_taken() logic (Paul Chaignon)
- Add support for atomic operations in arena in riscv JIT (Pu Lehui)
- Report arena faults to BPF error stream (Puranjay Mohan)
- Search for tracefs at /sys/kernel/tracing first in bpftool (Quentin
Monnet)
- Add bpf_strcasecmp() kfunc (Rong Tao)
- Support lookup_and_delete_elem command in BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE (Tao
Chen)
* tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (197 commits)
libbpf: Replace AF_ALG with open coded SHA-256
selftests/bpf: Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI
selftests/bpf: Add test case for different expected_attach_type
bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility
bpftool: Remove duplicate string.h header
bpf: Remove duplicate crypto/sha2.h header
libbpf: Fix error when st-prefix_ops and ops from differ btf
selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from kfunc
selftests/bpf: Add stacktrace map lookup_and_delete_elem test case
selftests/bpf: Refactor stacktrace_map case with skeleton
bpf: Add lookup_and_delete_elem for BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE
selftests/bpf: Fix flaky bpf_cookie selftest
selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from global functions with a kfunc
bpf: Emit struct bpf_xdp_sock type in vmlinux BTF
selftests/bpf: Task_work selftest cleanup fixes
MAINTAINERS: Delete inactive maintainers from AF_XDP
bpf: Mark kfuncs as __noclone
selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi write ctx attach test
selftests/bpf: Add kprobe write ctx attach test
selftests/bpf: Add uprobe context ip register change test
...
Core perf code updates:
- Convert mmap() related reference counts to refcount_t. This
is in reaction to the recently fixed refcount bugs, which
could have been detected earlier and could have mitigated
the bug somewhat. (Thomas Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra)
- Clean up and simplify the callchain code, in preparation
for sframes. (Steven Rostedt, Josh Poimboeuf)
Uprobes updates:
- Add support to optimize usdt probes on x86-64, which
gives a substantial speedup. (Jiri Olsa)
- Cleanups and fixes on x86 (Peter Zijlstra)
PMU driver updates:
- Various optimizations and fixes to the Intel PMU driver
(Dapeng Mi)
Misc cleanups and fixes:
- Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN (Qianfeng Rong)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core perf code updates:
- Convert mmap() related reference counts to refcount_t. This is in
reaction to the recently fixed refcount bugs, which could have been
detected earlier and could have mitigated the bug somewhat (Thomas
Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra)
- Clean up and simplify the callchain code, in preparation for
sframes (Steven Rostedt, Josh Poimboeuf)
Uprobes updates:
- Add support to optimize usdt probes on x86-64, which gives a
substantial speedup (Jiri Olsa)
- Cleanups and fixes on x86 (Peter Zijlstra)
PMU driver updates:
- Various optimizations and fixes to the Intel PMU driver (Dapeng Mi)
Misc cleanups and fixes:
- Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN (Qianfeng Rong)"
* tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe_sigill test for uprobe syscall error value
uprobes/x86: Return error from uprobe syscall when not called from trampoline
perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
perf: Simplify get_perf_callchain() user logic
perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL
perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
perf: Remove get_perf_callchain() init_nr argument
perf/x86: Print PMU counters bitmap in x86_pmu_show_pmu_cap()
perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK
perf/x86/intel: Change macro GLOBAL_CTRL_EN_PERF_METRICS to BIT_ULL(48)
perf/x86: Add PERF_CAP_PEBS_TIMING_INFO flag
perf/x86/intel: Fix IA32_PMC_x_CFG_B MSRs access error
perf/x86/intel: Use early_initcall() to hook bts_init()
uprobes: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
selftests/seccomp: validate uprobe syscall passes through seccomp
seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe syscall shadow stack test
selftests/bpf: Change test_uretprobe_regs_change for uprobe and uretprobe
selftests/bpf: Add uprobe_regs_equal test
selftests/bpf: Add optimized usdt variant for basic usdt test
...
Core scheduler changes:
- Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
(Menglong Dong)
- Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)
- Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)
Fair scheduling:
- Defer throttling when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
chance & impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and
other resources. (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)
- Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask(),
as the warning was getting triggered on certain topologies.
(Peter Zijlstra)
Misc cleanups & fixes:
- Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)
- Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core scheduler changes:
- Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
(Menglong Dong)
- Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)
- Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)
Fair scheduling:
- Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
chance & impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)
- Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask(), as the
warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
Zijlstra)
Misc cleanups & fixes:
- Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)
- Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"
* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask()
sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs async directory updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains further preparatory changes for the asynchronous directory
locking scheme:
- Add lookup_one_positive_killable() which allows overlayfs to
perform lookup that won't block on a fatal signal
- Unify the mount idmap handling in struct renamedata as a rename can
only happen within a single mount
- Introduce kern_path_parent() for audit which sets the path to the
parent and returns a dentry for the target without holding any
locks on return
- Rename kern_path_locked() as it is only used to prepare for the
removal of an object from the filesystem:
kern_path_locked() => start_removing_path()
kern_path_create() => start_creating_path()
user_path_create() => start_creating_user_path()
user_path_locked_at() => start_removing_user_path_at()
done_path_create() => end_creating_path()
NA => end_removing_path()"
* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
debugfs: rename start_creating() to debugfs_start_creating()
VFS: rename kern_path_locked() and related functions.
VFS/audit: introduce kern_path_parent() for audit
VFS: unify old_mnt_idmap and new_mnt_idmap in renamedata
VFS: discard err2 in filename_create()
VFS/ovl: add lookup_one_positive_killable()
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.
Features:
- Add "initramfs_options" parameter to set initramfs mount options.
This allows to add specific mount options to the rootfs to e.g.,
limit the memory size
- Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2()
Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2. This flag prevents the SIGPIPE
signal from being raised when writing on disconnected pipes or
sockets. The flag is handled directly by the pipe filesystem and
converted to the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for sockets
- Allow to pass pid namespace as procfs mount option
Ever since the introduction of pid namespaces, procfs has had very
implicit behaviour surrounding them (the pidns used by a procfs
mount is auto-selected based on the mounting process's active
pidns, and the pidns itself is basically hidden once the mount has
been constructed)
This implicit behaviour has historically meant that userspace was
required to do some special dances in order to configure the pidns
of a procfs mount as desired. Examples include:
* In order to bypass the mnt_too_revealing() check, Kubernetes
creates a procfs mount from an empty pidns so that user
namespaced containers can be nested (without this, the nested
containers would fail to mount procfs)
But this requires forking off a helper process because you cannot
just one-shot this using mount(2)
* Container runtimes in general need to fork into a container
before configuring its mounts, which can lead to security issues
in the case of shared-pidns containers (a privileged process in
the pidns can interact with your container runtime process)
While SUID_DUMP_DISABLE and user namespaces make this less of an
issue, the strict need for this due to a minor uAPI wart is kind
of unfortunate
Things would be much easier if there was a way for userspace to
just specify the pidns they want. So this pull request contains
changes to implement a new "pidns" argument which can be set
using fsconfig(2):
fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "pidns", NULL, nsfd);
fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "pidns", "/proc/self/ns/pid", 0);
or classic mount(2) / mount(8):
// mount -t proc -o pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid proc /tmp/proc
mount("proc", "/tmp/proc", "proc", MS_..., "pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid");
Cleanups:
- Remove the last references to EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK
- Make file_remove_privs_flags() static
- Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN when GFP_NOWAIT is used
- Use try_cmpxchg() in start_dir_add()
- Use try_cmpxchg() in sb_init_done_wq()
- Replace offsetof() with struct_size() in ioctl_file_dedupe_range()
- Remove vfs_ioctl() export
- Replace rwlock() with spinlock in epoll code as rwlock causes
priority inversion on preempt rt kernels
- Make ns_entries in fs/proc/namespaces const
- Use a switch() statement() in init_special_inode() just like we do
in may_open()
- Use struct_size() in dir_add() in the initramfs code
- Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()
- Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()
- Rename generic_delete_inode() to inode_just_drop() and
generic_drop_inode() to inode_generic_drop()
- Remove unused arguments from fcntl_{g,s}et_rw_hint()
Fixes:
- Document @name parameter for name_contains_dotdot() helper
- Fix spelling mistake
- Always return zero from replace_fd() instead of the file descriptor
number
- Limit the size for copy_file_range() in compat mode to prevent a
signed overflow
- Fix debugfs mount options not being applied
- Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in minixfs
- Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in cramfs
- Don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV
If openat2() was called with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV it didn't traverse
through automounts, but could still trigger them
- Add FL_RECLAIM flag to show_fl_flags() macro so it appears in
tracepoints
- Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390
- Make INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD
- Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
- Don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore in listmount() and
statmount()"
* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (38 commits)
fcntl: trim arguments
listmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
statmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
pid: use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()
init: INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME should depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD
initramfs: Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()
initrd: Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()
initramfs: Use struct_size() helper to improve dir_add()
initrd: Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390
fs: use the switch statement in init_special_inode()
fs/proc/namespaces: make ns_entries const
filelock: add FL_RECLAIM to show_fl_flags() macro
eventpoll: Replace rwlock with spinlock
selftests/proc: add tests for new pidns APIs
procfs: add "pidns" mount option
pidns: move is-ancestor logic to helper
openat2: don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV
namei: move cross-device check to __traverse_mounts
namei: remove LOOKUP_NO_XDEV check from handle_mounts
...
Change alloc_pages_nolock() to default to __GFP_COMP when allocating
pages, since upcoming reentrant alloc_slab_page() needs __GFP_COMP.
Also allow __GFP_ACCOUNT flag to be specified,
since most of BPF infra needs __GFP_ACCOUNT except BPF streams.
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Yinhao et al. recently reported:
Our fuzzer tool discovered an uninitialized pointer issue in the
bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() function within the Linux kernel's BPF subsystem.
This leads to a NULL pointer dereference when a BPF program attempts to
deference the txq member of struct xdp_buff object.
The test initializes two programs of BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP: progA acts as the
entry point for bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() and its expected_attach_type can
neither be of be BPF_XDP_DEVMAP nor BPF_XDP_CPUMAP. progA calls into a slot
of a tailcall map it owns. progB's expected_attach_type must be BPF_XDP_DEVMAP
to pass xdp_is_valid_access() validation. The program returns struct xdp_md's
egress_ifindex, and the latter is only allowed to be accessed under mentioned
expected_attach_type. progB is then inserted into the tailcall which progA
calls.
The underlying issue goes beyond XDP though. Another example are programs
of type BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SOCK_ADDR. sock_addr_is_valid_access() as well
as sock_addr_func_proto() have different logic depending on the programs'
expected_attach_type. Similarly, a program attached to BPF_CGROUP_INET4_GETPEERNAME
should not be allowed doing a tailcall into a program which calls bpf_bind()
out of BPF which is only enabled for BPF_CGROUP_INET4_CONNECT.
In short, specifying expected_attach_type allows to open up additional
functionality or restrictions beyond what the basic bpf_prog_type enables.
The use of tailcalls must not violate these constraints. Fix it by enforcing
expected_attach_type in __bpf_prog_map_compatible().
Note that we only enforce this for tailcall maps, but not for BPF devmaps or
cpumaps: There, the programs are invoked through dev_map_bpf_prog_run*() and
cpu_map_bpf_prog_run*() which set up a new environment / context and therefore
these situations are not prone to this issue.
Fixes: 5e43f899b0 ("bpf: Check attach type at prog load time")
Reported-by: Yinhao Hu <dddddd@hust.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Kaiyan Mei <M202472210@hust.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250926171201.188490-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The stacktrace map can be easily full, which will lead to failure in
obtaining the stack. In addition to increasing the size of the map,
another solution is to delete the stack_id after looking it up from
the user, so extend the existing bpf_map_lookup_and_delete_elem()
functionality to stacktrace map types.
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250925175030.1615837-1-chen.dylane@linux.dev
For now, migrate_enable and migrate_disable are global, which makes them
become hotspots in some case. Take BPF for example, the function calling
to migrate_enable and migrate_disable in BPF trampoline can introduce
significant overhead, and following is the 'perf top' of FENTRY's
benchmark (./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench trig-fentry):
54.63% bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry [k]
bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry
10.43% [kernel] [k] migrate_enable
10.07% bpf_trampoline_6442517037 [k] bpf_trampoline_6442517037
8.06% [kernel] [k] __bpf_prog_exit_recur
4.11% libc.so.6 [.] syscall
2.15% [kernel] [k] entry_SYSCALL_64
1.48% [kernel] [k] memchr_inv
1.32% [kernel] [k] fput
1.16% [kernel] [k] _copy_to_user
0.73% [kernel] [k] bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp
So in this commit, we make migrate_enable/migrate_disable inline to obtain
better performance. The struct rq is defined internally in
kernel/sched/sched.h, and the field "nr_pinned" is accessed in
migrate_enable/migrate_disable, which makes it hard to make them inline.
Alexei Starovoitov suggests to generate the offset of "nr_pinned" in [1],
so we can define the migrate_enable/migrate_disable in
include/linux/sched.h and access "this_rq()->nr_pinned" with
"(void *)this_rq() + RQ_nr_pinned".
The offset of "nr_pinned" is generated in include/generated/rq-offsets.h
by kernel/sched/rq-offsets.c.
Generally speaking, we move the definition of migrate_enable and
migrate_disable to include/linux/sched.h from kernel/sched/core.c. The
calling to __set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is leaved in ___migrate_enable().
The "struct rq" is not available in include/linux/sched.h, so we can't
access the "runqueues" with this_cpu_ptr(), as the compilation will fail
in this_cpu_ptr() -> raw_cpu_ptr() -> __verify_pcpu_ptr():
typeof((ptr) + 0)
So we introduce the this_rq_raw() and access the runqueues with
arch_raw_cpu_ptr/PERCPU_PTR directly.
The variable "runqueues" is not visible in the kernel modules, and export
it is not a good idea. As Peter Zijlstra advised in [2], we define and
export migrate_enable/migrate_disable in kernel/sched/core.c too, and use
them for the modules.
Before this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY is:
fentry : 113.030 ± 0.149M/s
fentry : 112.501 ± 0.187M/s
fentry : 112.828 ± 0.267M/s
fentry : 115.287 ± 0.241M/s
After this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY increases to:
fentry : 143.644 ± 0.670M/s
fentry : 149.764 ± 0.362M/s
fentry : 149.642 ± 0.156M/s
fentry : 145.263 ± 0.221M/s
Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <dongml2@chinatelecom.cn>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQ+5sEDKHdsJY5ZsfGDO_1SEhhQWHrt2SMBG5SYyQ+jt7w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250819123214.GH4067720@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [2]
bpf_xdp_pull_data() may change packet data and therefore packet pointers
need to be invalidated. Add bpf_xdp_pull_data() to the special kfunc
list instead of introducing a new KF_ flag until there are more kfuncs
changing packet data.
Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922233356.3356453-5-ameryhung@gmail.com
Currently, functions with 'union' arguments cannot be traced with
fentry/fexit:
bpftrace -e 'fentry:release_pages { exit(); }' -v
The function release_pages arg0 type UNION is unsupported.
The type of the 'release_pages' arg0 is defined as:
typedef union {
struct page **pages;
struct folio **folios;
struct encoded_page **encoded_pages;
} release_pages_arg __attribute__ ((__transparent_union__));
This patch relaxes the restriction by allowing function arguments of type
'union' to be traced in verifier.
Reviewed-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919044110.23729-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Currently, signed load instructions into arena memory are unsupported.
The compiler is free to generate these, and on GCC-14 we see a
corresponding error when it happens. The hurdle in supporting them is
deciding which unused opcode to use to mark them for the JIT's own
consumption. After much thinking, it appears 0xc0 / BPF_NOSPEC can be
combined with load instructions to identify signed arena loads. Use
this to recognize and JIT them appropriately, and remove the verifier
side limitation on the program if the JIT supports them.
Co-developed-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923110157.18326-2-puranjay@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Implementation of the new bpf_task_work_schedule kfuncs, that let a BPF
program schedule task_work callbacks for a target task:
* bpf_task_work_schedule_signal() - schedules with TWA_SIGNAL
* bpf_task_work_schedule_resume() - schedules with TWA_RESUME
Each map value should embed a struct bpf_task_work, which the kernel
side pairs with struct bpf_task_work_kern, containing a pointer to
struct bpf_task_work_ctx, that maintains metadata relevant for the
concrete callback scheduling.
A small state machine and refcounting scheme ensures safe reuse and
teardown. State transitions:
_______________________________
| |
v |
[standby] ---> [pending] --> [scheduling] --> [scheduled]
^ |________________|_________
| |
| v
| [running]
|_______________________________________________________|
All states may transition into FREED state:
[pending] [scheduling] [scheduled] [running] [standby] -> [freed]
A FREED terminal state coordinates with map-value
deletion (bpf_task_work_cancel_and_free()).
Scheduling itself is deferred via irq_work to keep the kfunc callable
from NMI context.
Lifetime is guarded with refcount_t + RCU Tasks Trace.
Main components:
* struct bpf_task_work_context – Metadata and state management per task
work.
* enum bpf_task_work_state – A state machine to serialize work
scheduling and execution.
* bpf_task_work_schedule() – The central helper that initiates
scheduling.
* bpf_task_work_acquire_ctx() - Attempts to take ownership of the context,
pointed by passed struct bpf_task_work, allocates new context if none
exists yet.
* bpf_task_work_callback() – Invoked when the actual task_work runs.
* bpf_task_work_irq() – An intermediate step (runs in softirq context)
to enqueue task work.
* bpf_task_work_cancel_and_free() – Cleanup for deleted BPF map entries.
Flow of successful task work scheduling
1) bpf_task_work_schedule_* is called from BPF code.
2) Transition state from STANDBY to PENDING, mark context as owned by
this task work scheduler
3) irq_work_queue() schedules bpf_task_work_irq().
4) Transition state from PENDING to SCHEDULING (noop if transition
successful)
5) bpf_task_work_irq() attempts task_work_add(). If successful, state
transitions to SCHEDULED.
6) Task work calls bpf_task_work_callback(), which transition state to
RUNNING.
7) BPF callback is executed
8) Context is cleaned up, refcounts released, context state set back to
STANDBY.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-8-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Calculation of the BPF map key, given the pointer to a value is
duplicated in a couple of places in helpers already, in the next patch
another use case is introduced as well.
This patch extracts that functionality into a separate function.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-7-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This patch adds necessary plumbing in verifier, syscall and maps to
support handling new kfunc bpf_task_work_schedule and kernel structure
bpf_task_work. The idea is similar to how we already handle bpf_wq and
bpf_timer.
verifier changes validate calls to bpf_task_work_schedule to make sure
it is safe and expected invariants hold.
btf part is required to detect bpf_task_work structure inside map value
and store its offset, which will be used in the next patch to calculate
key and value addresses.
arraymap and hashtab changes are needed to handle freeing of the
bpf_task_work: run code needed to deinitialize it, for example cancel
task_work callback if possible.
The use of bpf_task_work and proper implementation for kfuncs are
introduced in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-6-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The verifier currently enforces a zero return value for all async
callbacks—a constraint originally introduced for bpf_timer. That
restriction is too narrow for other async use cases.
Relax the rule by allowing non-zero return codes from async callbacks in
general, while preserving the zero-return requirement for bpf_timer to
maintain its existing semantics.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-5-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Extract the cleanup of known embedded structs into the dedicated helper.
Remove duplication and introduce a single source of truth for freeing
special embedded structs in hashtab.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-4-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Refactor the verifier by pulling the common logic from
process_timer_func() into a dedicated helper. This allows reusing
process_async_func() helper for verifying bpf_task_work struct in the
next patch.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-3-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reduce code duplication in detection of the known special field types in
map values. This refactoring helps to avoid copying a chunk of code in
the next patch of the series.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-2-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
kern_path_locked() is now only used to prepare for removing an object
from the filesystem (and that is the only credible reason for wanting a
positive locked dentry). Thus it corresponds to kern_path_create() and
so should have a corresponding name.
Unfortunately the name "kern_path_create" is somewhat misleading as it
doesn't actually create anything. The recently added
simple_start_creating() provides a better pattern I believe. The
"start" can be matched with "end" to bracket the creating or removing.
So this patch changes names:
kern_path_locked -> start_removing_path
kern_path_create -> start_creating_path
user_path_create -> start_creating_user_path
user_path_locked_at -> start_removing_user_path_at
done_path_create -> end_creating_path
and also introduces end_removing_path() which is identical to
end_creating_path().
__start_removing_path (which was __kern_path_locked) is enhanced to
call mnt_want_write() for consistency with the start_creating_path().
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
This patch extends the BPF_PROG_LOAD command by adding three new fields
to `union bpf_attr` in the user-space API:
- signature: A pointer to the signature blob.
- signature_size: The size of the signature blob.
- keyring_id: The serial number of a loaded kernel keyring (e.g.,
the user or session keyring) containing the trusted public keys.
When a BPF program is loaded with a signature, the kernel:
1. Retrieves the trusted keyring using the provided `keyring_id`.
2. Verifies the supplied signature against the BPF program's
instruction buffer.
3. If the signature is valid and was generated by a key in the trusted
keyring, the program load proceeds.
4. If no signature is provided, the load proceeds as before, allowing
for backward compatibility. LSMs can chose to restrict unsigned
programs and implement a security policy.
5. If signature verification fails for any reason,
the program is not loaded.
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250921160120.9711-2-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Converting bpf_insn_successors() to use lookup table makes it ~1.5
times faster.
Also remove unnecessary conditionals:
- `idx + 1 < prog->len` is unnecessary because after check_cfg() all
jump targets are guaranteed to be within a program;
- `i == 0 || succ[0] != dst` is unnecessary because any client of
bpf_insn_successors() can handle duplicate edges:
- compute_live_registers()
- compute_scc()
Moving bpf_insn_successors() to liveness.c allows its inlining in
liveness.c:__update_stack_liveness().
Such inlining speeds up __update_stack_liveness() by ~40%.
bpf_insn_successors() is used in both verifier.c and liveness.c.
perf shows such move does not negatively impact users in verifier.c,
as these are executed only once before main varification pass.
Unlike __update_stack_liveness() which can be triggered multiple
times.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-10-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Remove register chain based liveness tracking:
- struct bpf_reg_state->{parent,live} fields are no longer needed;
- REG_LIVE_WRITTEN marks are superseded by bpf_mark_stack_write()
calls;
- mark_reg_read() calls are superseded by bpf_mark_stack_read();
- log.c:print_liveness() is superseded by logging in liveness.c;
- propagate_liveness() is superseded by bpf_update_live_stack();
- no need to establish register chains in is_state_visited() anymore;
- fix a bunch of tests expecting "_w" suffixes in verifier log
messages.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-9-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Unlike the new algorithm, register chain based liveness tracking is
fully path sensitive, and thus should be strictly more accurate.
Validate the new algorithm by signaling an error whenever it considers
a stack slot dead while the old algorithm considers it alive.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-8-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Allocate analysis instance:
- Add bpf_stack_liveness_{init,free}() calls to bpf_check().
Notify the instance about any stack reads and writes:
- Add bpf_mark_stack_write() call at every location where
REG_LIVE_WRITTEN is recorded for a stack slot.
- Add bpf_mark_stack_read() call at every location mark_reg_read() is
called.
- Both bpf_mark_stack_{read,write}() rely on
env->liveness->cur_instance callchain being in sync with
env->cur_state. It is possible to update env->liveness->cur_instance
every time a mark read/write is called, but that costs a hash table
lookup and is noticeable in the performance profile. Hence, manually
reset env->liveness->cur_instance whenever the verifier changes
env->cur_state call stack:
- call bpf_reset_live_stack_callchain() when the verifier enters a
subprogram;
- call bpf_update_live_stack() when the verifier exits a subprogram
(it implies the reset).
Make sure bpf_update_live_stack() is called for a callchain before
issuing liveness queries. And make sure that bpf_update_live_stack()
is called for any callee callchain first:
- Add bpf_update_live_stack() call at every location that processes
BPF_EXIT:
- exit from a subprogram;
- before pop_stack() call.
This makes sure that bpf_update_live_stack() is called for callee
callchains before caller callchains.
Make sure must_write marks are set to zero for instructions that
do not always access the stack:
- Wrap do_check_insn() with bpf_reset_stack_write_marks() /
bpf_commit_stack_write_marks() calls.
Any calls to bpf_mark_stack_write() are accumulated between this
pair of calls. If no bpf_mark_stack_write() calls were made
it means that the instruction does not access stack (at-least
on the current verification path) and it is important to record
this fact.
Finally, use bpf_live_stack_query_init() / bpf_stack_slot_alive()
to query stack liveness info.
The manual tracking of the correct order for callee/caller
bpf_update_live_stack() calls is a bit convoluted and may warrant some
automation in future revisions.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-7-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This commit adds a flow-sensitive, context-sensitive, path-insensitive
data flow analysis for live stack slots:
- flow-sensitive: uses program control flow graph to compute data flow
values;
- context-sensitive: collects data flow values for each possible call
chain in a program;
- path-insensitive: does not distinguish between separate control flow
graph paths reaching the same instruction.
Compared to the current path-sensitive analysis, this approach trades
some precision for not having to enumerate every path in the program.
This gives a theoretical capability to run the analysis before main
verification pass. See cover letter for motivation.
The basic idea is as follows:
- Data flow values indicate stack slots that might be read and stack
slots that are definitely written.
- Data flow values are collected for each
(call chain, instruction number) combination in the program.
- Within a subprogram, data flow values are propagated using control
flow graph.
- Data flow values are transferred from entry instructions of callee
subprograms to call sites in caller subprograms.
In other words, a tree of all possible call chains is constructed.
Each node of this tree represents a subprogram. Read and write marks
are collected for each instruction of each node. Live stack slots are
first computed for lower level nodes. Then, information about outer
stack slots that might be read or are definitely written by a
subprogram is propagated one level up, to the corresponding call
instructions of the upper nodes. Procedure repeats until root node is
processed.
In the absence of value range analysis, stack read/write marks are
collected during main verification pass, and data flow computation is
triggered each time verifier.c:states_equal() needs to query the
information.
Implementation details are documented in kernel/bpf/liveness.c.
Quantitative data about verification performance changes and memory
consumption is in the cover letter.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-6-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The next patch would require doing postorder traversal of individual
subprograms. Facilitate this by moving env->cfg.insn_postorder
computation from check_cfg() to a separate pass, as check_cfg()
descends into called subprograms (and it needs to, because of
merge_callee_effects() logic).
env->cfg.insn_postorder is used only by compute_live_registers(),
this function does not track cross subprogram dependencies,
thus the change does not affect it's operation.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-5-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
stacksafe() is called in exact == NOT_EXACT mode only for states that
had been porcessed by clean_verifier_states(). The latter replaces
dead stack spills with a series of STACK_INVALID masks. Such masks are
already handled by stacksafe().
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-3-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Prepare for bpf_reg_state->live field removal by leveraging
insn_aux_data->live_regs_before instead of bpf_reg_state->live in
compute_live_registers(). This is similar to logic in
func_states_equal(). No changes in verification performance for
selftests or sched_ext.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-2-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Prepare for bpf_reg_state->live field removal by introducing a
separate flag to track if clean_verifier_state() had been applied to
the state. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-1-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
No functional changes, except for the addition of the headers for the
kfuncs so that they can be used for signature verification.
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250914215141.15144-8-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Currently only array maps are supported, but the implementation can be
extended for other maps and objects. The hash is memoized only for
exclusive and frozen maps as their content is stable until the exclusive
program modifies the map.
This is required for BPF signing, enabling a trusted loader program to
verify a map's integrity. The loader retrieves
the map's runtime hash from the kernel and compares it against an
expected hash computed at build time.
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250914215141.15144-7-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Exclusive maps allow maps to only be accessed by program with a
program with a matching hash which is specified in the excl_prog_hash
attr.
For the signing use-case, this allows the trusted loader program
to load the map and verify the integrity
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250914215141.15144-3-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Exclusive maps restrict map access to specific programs using a hash.
The current hash used for this is SHA1, which is prone to collisions.
This patch uses SHA256, which is more resilient against
collisions. This new hash is stored in bpf_prog and used by the verifier
to determine if a program can access a given exclusive map.
The original 64-bit tags are kept, as they are used by users as a short,
possibly colliding program identifier for non-security purposes.
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250914215141.15144-2-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Currently, KF_RCU_PROTECTED only applies to iterator APIs and that too
in a convoluted fashion: the presence of this flag on the kfunc is used
to set MEM_RCU in iterator type, and the lack of RCU protection results
in an error only later, once next() or destroy() methods are invoked on
the iterator. While there is no bug, this is certainly a bit
unintuitive, and makes the enforcement of the flag iterator specific.
In the interest of making this flag useful for other upcoming kfuncs,
e.g. scx_bpf_cpu_curr() [0][1], add enforcement for invoking the kfunc
in an RCU critical section in general.
This would also mean that iterator APIs using KF_RCU_PROTECTED will
error out earlier, instead of throwing an error for lack of RCU CS
protection when next() or destroy() methods are invoked.
In addition to this, if the kfuncs tagged KF_RCU_PROTECTED return a
pointer value, ensure that this pointer value is only usable in an RCU
critical section. There might be edge cases where the return value is
special and doesn't need to imply MEM_RCU semantics, but in general, the
assumption should hold for the majority of kfuncs, and we can revisit
things if necessary later.
[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250903212311.369697-3-christian.loehle@arm.com
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250909195709.92669-1-arighi@nvidia.com
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250917032755.4068726-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Syzbot generated a program that triggers a verifier_bug() call in
maybe_exit_scc(). maybe_exit_scc() assumes that, when called for a
state with insn_idx in some SCC, there should be an instance of struct
bpf_scc_visit allocated for that SCC. Turns out the assumption does
not hold for speculative execution paths. See example in the next
patch.
maybe_scc_exit() is called from update_branch_counts() for states that
reach branch count of zero, meaning that path exploration for a
particular path is finished. Path exploration can finish in one of
three ways:
a. Verification error is found. In this case, update_branch_counts()
is called only for non-speculative paths.
b. Top level BPF_EXIT is reached. Such instructions are never a part of
an SCC, so compute_scc_callchain() in maybe_scc_exit() will return
false, and maybe_scc_exit() will return early.
c. A checkpoint is reached and matched. Checkpoints are created by
is_state_visited(), which calls maybe_enter_scc(), which allocates
bpf_scc_visit instances for checkpoints within SCCs.
Hence, for non-speculative symbolic execution paths, the assumption
still holds: if maybe_scc_exit() is called for a state within an SCC,
bpf_scc_visit instance must exist.
This patch removes the verifier_bug() call for speculative paths.
Fixes: c9e31900b5 ("bpf: propagate read/precision marks over state graph backedges")
Reported-by: syzbot+3afc814e8df1af64b653@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/68c85acd.050a0220.2ff435.03a4.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250916212251.3490455-1-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Function bpf_patch_insn_data() has the following structure:
static struct bpf_prog *bpf_patch_insn_data(... env ...)
{
struct bpf_prog *new_prog;
struct bpf_insn_aux_data *new_data = NULL;
if (len > 1) {
new_data = vrealloc(...); // <--------- (1)
if (!new_data)
return NULL;
env->insn_aux_data = new_data; // <---- (2)
}
new_prog = bpf_patch_insn_single(env->prog, off, patch, len);
if (IS_ERR(new_prog)) {
...
vfree(new_data); // <----------------- (3)
return NULL;
}
... happy path ...
}
In case if bpf_patch_insn_single() returns an error the `new_data`
allocated at (1) will be freed at (3). However, at (2) this pointer
is stored in `env->insn_aux_data`. Which is freed unconditionally
by verifier.c:bpf_check() on both happy and error paths.
Thus, leading to double-free.
Fix this by removing vfree() call at (3), ownership over `new_data` is
already passed to `env->insn_aux_data` at this point.
Fixes: 77620d1267 ("bpf: use realloc in bpf_patch_insn_data")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250912-patch-insn-data-double-free-v1-1-af05bd85a21a@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The bpf_cgroup_from_id kfunc relies on cgroup_get_from_id to obtain the
cgroup corresponding to a given cgroup ID. This helper can be called in
a lot of contexts where the current thread can be random. A recent
example was its use in sched_ext's ops.tick(), to obtain the root cgroup
pointer. Since the current task can be whatever random user space task
preempted by the timer tick, this makes the behavior of the helper
unreliable.
Refactor out __cgroup_get_from_id as the non-namespace aware version of
cgroup_get_from_id, and change bpf_cgroup_from_id to make use of it.
There is no compatibility breakage here, since changing the namespace
against which the lookup is being done to the root cgroup namespace only
permits a wider set of lookups to succeed now. The cgroup IDs across
namespaces are globally unique, and thus don't need to be retranslated.
Reported-by: Dan Schatzberg <dschatzberg@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250915032618.1551762-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
generic_delete_inode() is rather misleading for what the routine is
doing. inode_just_drop() should be much clearer.
The new naming is inconsistent with generic_drop_inode(), so rename that
one as well with inode_ as the suffix.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Begin reporting arena page faults and the faulting address to BPF
program's stderr, this patch adds support in the arm64 and x86-64 JITs,
support for other archs can be added later.
The fault handlers receive the 32 bit address in the arena region so
the upper 32 bits of user_vm_start is added to it before printing the
address. This is what the user would expect to see as this is what is
printed by bpf_printk() is you pass it an address returned by
bpf_arena_alloc_pages();
Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250911145808.58042-4-puranjay@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
BPF streams are only valid for the main programs, to make it easier to
access streams from subprogs, introduce main_prog_aux in struct
bpf_prog_aux.
prog->aux->main_prog_aux = prog->aux, for main programs and
prog->aux->main_prog_aux = main_prog->aux, for subprograms.
Make bpf_prog_find_from_stack() use the added main_prog_aux to return
the mainprog when a subprog is found on the stack.
Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250911145808.58042-3-puranjay@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Shardul Bankar
Alexei Starovoitov
KaFai Wan
Linus Torvalds
Yazhou Tang
Brahmajit Das
Daniel Borkmann
Tao Chen
Menglong Dong
Martin KaFai Lau
Amery Hung
Leon Hwang
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Mykyta Yatsenko
NeilBrown
KP Singh
Eduard Zingerman
Mateusz Guzik
Puranjay Mohan