[PATCH bpf-next v2 00/43] bpf: Memory safety, lifetime and locking fixes
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From: Alexei Starovoitov <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-17 16:37:50
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Revision v2 of 2 in this series; queued in bpf-next as c058636f788f on 2026-10-17.
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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> This series collects fixes for bugs in the BPF core, the verifier and the BPF side of the networking stack. Most of them are from Josef. Every bug was reproduced in a VM on top of bpf-next, on the kernel right before and right after the patch that fixes it. The splats are in the commit logs. That goes for what the reviews of v1 have found as well. Sleeping, or doing without RCU, where that is not allowed: 02 hash map for_each callbacks of sleepable programs 05 sleepable programs on the task_vma iterator 06 bpf_find_vma() callbacks of sleepable programs 24 maps that rely on RCU in bpf_wq and bpf_task_work callbacks 32 extensions of functions that run sleepable Buffers that iterators and writable tracepoints hand to programs: 19 BPF_LINK_UPDATE skips the size check of the attach 25 tail calls from an iterator program 26 extensions of an iterator program 27 tail calls from a writable raw tracepoint program 28 extensions of a writable raw tracepoint program 29 writes over bpf_timer, bpf_spin_lock, kptr in a live map value The sk_storage map iterator: 14 a socket that sk_clone() is still building can be found and used 15 NULL dereference if the socket goes away 16 an element of a storage that was never published can be found 17 the socket is not held while the program runs Lifetime of local storage, programs and maps: 10 owner_refcnt saturates on the last unpin 30 map_free() frees elements under sleepable readers 31 values of a dead owner are freed under sleepable programs 22 a program is freed under its bpf_wq callback 23 an inner map is freed under a sleepable callback 33 the exception table of a program that still runs is not found XDP and devices: 01 devmap egress programs free page_pool fragments as plain pages 20 stale offload->prog after bpf_prog_realloc() 21 a program is bound to a netdev that is being unregistered 35 cpumap uses the device of a queued frame after it is gone seg6local End.BPF and bpf_skb_adjust_room(): 11 the SRH of the inner packet is not validated after End.DT6 12 the inner header is not pulled for End.DT6 13 stale SRH pointer if End.B6 fails late 08 gso_size can drop to 0 or wrap around skb dynptrs, where a write can reallocate the head of the skb: 36 kfuncs that write through a dynptr 37 bpf_dynptr_write() in a global function 38 a dynptr passed to a global function 39 extensions get the unclone prologue without an skb in R1 40 kfuncs that write through a dynptr do not unclone the skb 41 the source of the write is a slice of the same skb 42 overlapping source and destination 43 slices as arguments of helpers that change the packet The rest: 03 inode leak if BPF_TOKEN_CREATE fails 04 preallocated hash map hands out an element that is still linked 07 BPF_JSET with a 64 bit mask, 32-bit kernels only 09 probe names of a perf event are read without event_mutex 18 unbounded recursion in the BTF show code 34 BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN of sk_lookup uses the socket outside of RCU Some of the fixes make the kernel refuse what it has accepted so far: - 02, 06: helpers, kfuncs and global functions that may sleep are rejected in these callbacks. - 05: sleepable programs cannot be attached to the task_vma iterator. - 24: in sleepable callbacks, and for inner maps in sleepable programs, maps that rely on RCU need bpf_rcu_read_lock(). - 25, 27: a program with a tail call cannot be attached to a map element iterator or to a writable tracepoint. - 29: an iterator program that writes over a special field cannot be attached to that map. - 36-38, 43: packet pointers and slices are invalidated in more places. That hits some programs which are harmless at run time. A program that keeps a packet pointer across a global function which only writes to a ringbuf dynptr is one example. - 04: a nested update of a preallocated hash map on the same CPU can fail with -EBUSY. - 08: bpf_skb_adjust_room() returns -ENOTSUPP if gso_size would drop below TCP_MIN_GSO_SIZE. - 28: writable raw tracepoint programs cannot be extended. - 32: the main function of a sleepable program, and a global function that is called without the RCU read lock, cannot be extended. The summarization selftest is adjusted. - 39: an extension that writes to packet data has to get the context as its first argument, and scalars beside it. test_progs in its three flavors, test_maps and test_verifier show no new failures. cpumask/test_insert_leave is flaky when the tests run in parallel, with and without the series: its program does not check is_test_task(), so any other fork in the system makes it fail. veristat sees no difference for the 5689 programs of the selftests, nor for the 466 programs of the sched_ext schedulers that BPF CI builds: same verdicts, insns, states and stack depth. v1 -> v2, all of it after the reviews by sashiko and the BPF CI bot: - rebased - 04: cancel the special fields before the element goes into the slot - 08: leave at least TCP_MIN_GSO_SIZE - 16: new. The check in 17 did not hold for a storage that lost the race in bpf_local_storage_alloc(). - 20: update offload->prog under bpf_devs_lock, in bpf_jit_prog_release_other() as well - 24: a global function that is called with preemption or interrupts disabled got around the check - 28, 32: new. Extensions got around 27 and 31. - 31: leave the special fields to the RCU Tasks Trace callback too - 39, 40: new. The kfuncs of 36 wrote to cloned skbs. 39 is needed for 40 not to give the prologue to extensions that cannot take it. - 41: make the skb writable once - 18: no change. bpf_snprintf_btf() and bpf_seq_printf_btf() only take vmlinux BTF, and the map read in bpffs is BTF_SHOW_UNSAFE. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20261017012058.355787-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com/ (local) Alexei Starovoitov (6): bpf: Clear sk_refcnt of a clone before its storage is linked bpf: Link the first element after its storage is published bpf: Don't take an extension for a writable raw tracepoint program bpf: Don't take an extension for a function that runs sleepable bpf: Refuse the prologue for an extension that cannot take it bpf: Unclone the skb for kfuncs that write through a dynptr Josef Bacik (37): bpf: use the frame mem type in devmap egress XDP bpf: forbid sleeping in hash map for_each callbacks bpf: don't leak the inode when token creation fails bpf: don't hand out a linked element as extra element bpf: reject sleepable programs for task_vma iterator bpf: forbid sleeping in bpf_find_vma() callbacks bpf: look at all 64 bits of a BPF_JSET mask on 32-bit bpf: don't let bpf_skb_adjust_room() use up the MSS bpf: Read the probe of a perf event under event_mutex bpf: Don't saturate owner_refcnt on the last unpin bpf: Validate the SRH which End.DT6 uncovers in End.BPF bpf: Pull the inner header for End.DT6 in End.BPF bpf: Update the SRH state if End.B6 fails late bpf: Fix NULL deref in the sk_storage map iterator bpf: Hold the socket in the sk_storage map iterator bpf: Bound the nesting that the BTF show code follows bpf: Check the new program of an iterator link update bpf: Fix stale offload->prog pointer after realloc bpf: Don't bind a program to a netdev that goes away bpf: Keep a program until its bpf_wq callback has ended bpf: Count sleepable callbacks as sleepable map users bpf: Check the maps that sleepable callbacks use bpf: Assume no bounds for buffers behind a tail call bpf: Don't take an extension for an iterator program bpf: Assume no bounds for a writable tp with tail calls bpf: Keep iterator programs off special map fields bpf: Free what map_free() unlinks for sleepable readers bpf: Keep values of a dead owner for sleepable programs bpf: Keep the symbols of a program until it has ended bpf: Use the socket of a sk_lookup test run under RCU bpf, cpumap: Hold the device of frames in the queue bpf: Drop packet pointers behind kfuncs writing an skb bpf: Let bpf_dynptr_write() mark a global function bpf: Don't take a dynptr argument for a local dynptr bpf: Follow the head if an skb is written from a slice bpf: Use memmove() to store bytes in an skb bpf: Refuse packet slices for packet-changing helpers include/linux/bpf.h | 43 ++- include/linux/bpf_local_storage.h | 13 + include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 9 + kernel/bpf/bpf_iter.c | 31 +- kernel/bpf/bpf_local_storage.c | 50 +++- kernel/bpf/btf.c | 14 +- kernel/bpf/cfg.c | 4 +- kernel/bpf/core.c | 56 ++-- kernel/bpf/cpumap.c | 35 ++- kernel/bpf/devmap.c | 1 + kernel/bpf/fixups.c | 30 ++ kernel/bpf/hashtab.c | 22 +- kernel/bpf/helpers.c | 9 +- kernel/bpf/map_in_map.c | 7 +- kernel/bpf/map_iter.c | 79 +++-- kernel/bpf/offload.c | 25 +- kernel/bpf/states.c | 3 + kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 28 +- kernel/bpf/task_iter.c | 12 +- kernel/bpf/token.c | 5 +- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 269 +++++++++++++++--- kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 13 + net/bpf/test_run.c | 19 +- net/core/bpf_sk_storage.c | 96 ++++++- net/core/filter.c | 58 +++- net/core/sock_map.c | 17 +- .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/summarization.c | 21 +- 27 files changed, 781 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-) base-commit: 458575e1f2ddea944d679fe778c92e370a9b61a4 -- 2.55.0