Thread (38 messages) 38 messages, 4 authors, 2026-01-13

Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 05/16] bpf: Change local_storage->lock and b->lock to rqspinlock

From: bot+bpf-ci@kernel.org
Date: 2025-12-18 18:28:00
Also in: bpf

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diff --git a/kernel/bpf/bpf_local_storage.c b/kernel/bpf/bpf_local_storage.c
index fa629a180e9e..1d21ec11c80e 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/bpf_local_storage.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/bpf_local_storage.c
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@@ -382,7 +390,10 @@ int bpf_selem_unlink(struct bpf_local_storage_elem *selem, bool reuse_now)
 	local_storage = rcu_dereference_check(selem->local_storage,
 					      bpf_rcu_lock_held());

-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&local_storage->lock, flags);
+	err = raw_res_spin_lock_irqsave(&local_storage->lock, flags);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
This change makes bpf_selem_unlink() failable, but bpf_local_storage_map_free()
calls it in a while loop that continues iterating while hlist_first_rcu()
returns elements:

    while ((selem = hlist_entry_safe(
            rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_first_rcu(&b->list)), ...))) {
        WARN_ON(bpf_selem_unlink(selem, true));
    }

If bpf_selem_unlink() fails (returns error), the selem is not removed from
b->list, so hlist_first_rcu() returns the same selem again. Would this cause
an infinite loop printing warnings until the system becomes unresponsive?

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@@ -719,7 +743,7 @@ void bpf_local_storage_destroy(struct bpf_local_storage *local_storage)
 	 * when unlinking elem from the local_storage->list and
 	 * the map's bucket->list.
 	 */
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&local_storage->lock, flags);
+	WARN_ON(raw_res_spin_lock_irqsave(&local_storage->lock, flags));
 	hlist_for_each_entry_safe(selem, n, &local_storage->list, snode) {
 		/* Always unlink from map before unlinking from
 		 * local_storage.
 		 */
-		bpf_selem_unlink_map(selem);
+		WARN_ON(bpf_selem_unlink_map(selem));
If raw_res_spin_lock_irqsave() fails, WARN_ON() prints a warning but does
not prevent execution from continuing. The code then proceeds to iterate
local_storage->list without holding local_storage->lock, and eventually
calls raw_res_spin_unlock_irqrestore() at the end without having acquired
the lock. Does this cause issues with the rqspinlock held-lock tracking,
which unconditionally decrements its counter in res_spin_unlock()?

Additionally, if bpf_selem_unlink_map() fails, the selem remains linked to
the map's bucket list, but execution continues and
bpf_selem_unlink_storage_nolock() removes it from local_storage->list and
adds it to the free list. When the selem is later freed, would the map's
bucket still hold a dangling reference to it?
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@@ -734,7 +758,7 @@ void bpf_local_storage_destroy(struct bpf_local_storage *local_storage)
 		free_storage = bpf_selem_unlink_storage_nolock(
 			local_storage, selem, &free_selem_list);
 	}
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local_storage->lock, flags);
+	raw_res_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local_storage->lock, flags);
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