linux.git/kernel/bpf/helpers.c, branch v6.12.80

bpf: Do not limit bpf_cgroup_from_id to current's namespace

2025-11-13T20:34:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2c895133950646f45e5cf3900b168c952c8dbee8 ]

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 
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250915032618.1551762-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bpf: Tell memcg to use allow_spinning=false path in bpf_timer_init()

2025-09-19T14:35:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6d78b4473cdb08b74662355a9e8510bde09c511e ]

Currently, calling bpf_map_kmalloc_node() from __bpf_async_init() can
cause various locking issues; see the following stack trace (edited for
style) as one example:

...
 [10.011566]  do_raw_spin_lock.cold
 [10.011570]  try_to_wake_up             (5) double-acquiring the same
 [10.011575]  kick_pool                      rq_lock, causing a hardlockup
 [10.011579]  __queue_work
 [10.011582]  queue_work_on
 [10.011585]  kernfs_notify
 [10.011589]  cgroup_file_notify
 [10.011593]  try_charge_memcg           (4) memcg accounting raises an
 [10.011597]  obj_cgroup_charge_pages        MEMCG_MAX event
 [10.011599]  obj_cgroup_charge_account
 [10.011600]  __memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook
 [10.011603]  __kmalloc_node_noprof
...
 [10.011611]  bpf_map_kmalloc_node
 [10.011612]  __bpf_async_init
 [10.011615]  bpf_timer_init             (3) BPF calls bpf_timer_init()
 [10.011617]  bpf_prog_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_fcg_runnable
 [10.011619]  bpf__sched_ext_ops_runnable
 [10.011620]  enqueue_task_scx           (2) BPF runs with rq_lock held
 [10.011622]  enqueue_task
 [10.011626]  ttwu_do_activate
 [10.011629]  sched_ttwu_pending         (1) grabs rq_lock
...

The above was reproduced on bpf-next (b338cf849ec8) by modifying
./tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c to call bpf_timer_init() during
ops.runnable(), and hacking the memcg accounting code a bit to make
a bpf_timer_init() call more likely to raise an MEMCG_MAX event.

We have also run into other similar variants (both internally and on
bpf-next), including double-acquiring cgroup_file_kn_lock, the same
worker_pool::lock, etc.

As suggested by Shakeel, fix this by using __GFP_HIGH instead of
GFP_ATOMIC in __bpf_async_init(), so that e.g. if try_charge_memcg()
raises an MEMCG_MAX event, we call __memcg_memory_event() with
@allow_spinning=false and avoid calling cgroup_file_notify() there.

Depends on mm patch
"memcg: skip cgroup_file_notify if spinning is not allowed":
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250905201606.66198-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev/

v0 approach s/bpf_map_kmalloc_node/bpf_mem_alloc/
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250905061919.439648-1-yepeilin@google.com/
v1 approach:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250905234547.862249-1-yepeilin@google.com/

Fixes: b00628b1c7d5 ("bpf: Introduce bpf timers.")
Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt 
Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250909095222.2121438-1-yepeilin@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bpf: Ensure RCU lock is held around bpf_prog_ksym_find

2025-08-15T10:13:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit d090326860096df9dac6f27cff76d3f8df44d4f1 ]

Add a warning to ensure RCU lock is held around tree lookup, and then
fix one of the invocations in bpf_stack_walker. The program has an
active stack frame and won't disappear. Use the opportunity to remove
unneeded invocation of is_bpf_text_address.

Fixes: f18b03fabaa9 ("bpf: Implement BPF exceptions")
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis 
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703204818.925464-5-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bpf: Reject %p% format string in bprintf-like helpers

2025-07-24T06:56:29+00:00

[ Upstream commit f8242745871f81a3ac37f9f51853d12854fd0b58 ]

static const char fmt[] = "%p%";
    bpf_trace_printk(fmt, sizeof(fmt));

The above BPF program isn't rejected and causes a kernel warning at
runtime:

    Please remove unsupported %\x00 in format string
    WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7244 at lib/vsprintf.c:2680 format_decode+0x49c/0x5d0

This happens because bpf_bprintf_prepare skips over the second %,
detected as punctuation, while processing %p. This patch fixes it by
not skipping over punctuation. %\x00 is then processed in the next
iteration and rejected.

Reported-by: syzbot+e2c932aec5c8a6e1d31c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 48cac3f4a96d ("bpf: Implement formatted output helpers with bstr_printf")
Acked-by: Yonghong Song 
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a0e06cc479faec9e802ae51ba5d66420523251ee.1751395489.git.paul.chaignon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bpf: Check rcu_read_lock_trace_held() in bpf_map_lookup_percpu_elem()

2025-06-27T10:11:28+00:00

[ Upstream commit d4965578267e2e81f67c86e2608481e77e9c8569 ]

bpf_map_lookup_percpu_elem() helper is also available for sleepable bpf
program. When BPF JIT is disabled or under 32-bit host,
bpf_map_lookup_percpu_elem() will not be inlined. Using it in a
sleepable bpf program will trigger the warning in
bpf_map_lookup_percpu_elem(), because the bpf program only holds
rcu_read_lock_trace lock. Therefore, add the missed check.

Reported-by: syzbot+dce5aae19ae4d6399986@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/000000000000176a130617420310@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250526062534.1105938-1-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bpf: Cancel the running bpf_timer through kworker for PREEMPT_RT

2025-02-08T08:57:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit 58f038e6d209d2dd862fcf5de55407855856794d ]

During the update procedure, when overwrite element in a pre-allocated
htab, the freeing of old_element is protected by the bucket lock. The
reason why the bucket lock is necessary is that the old_element has
already been stashed in htab->extra_elems after alloc_htab_elem()
returns. If freeing the old_element after the bucket lock is unlocked,
the stashed element may be reused by concurrent update procedure and the
freeing of old_element will run concurrently with the reuse of the
old_element. However, the invocation of check_and_free_fields() may
acquire a spin-lock which violates the lockdep rule because its caller
has already held a raw-spin-lock (bucket lock). The following warning
will be reported when such race happens:

  BUG: scheduling while atomic: test_progs/676/0x00000003
  3 locks held by test_progs/676:
  #0: ffffffff864b0240 (rcu_read_lock_trace){....}-{0:0}, at: bpf_prog_test_run_syscall+0x2c0/0x830
  #1: ffff88810e961188 (&htab->lockdep_key){....}-{2:2}, at: htab_map_update_elem+0x306/0x1500
  #2: ffff8881f4eac1b8 (&base->softirq_expiry_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: hrtimer_cancel_wait_running+0xe9/0x1b0
  Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(O)
  Preemption disabled at:
  [] htab_map_update_elem+0x293/0x1500
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 676 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G ... 6.12.0+ #11
  Tainted: [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)...
  Call Trace:
  
  dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x70
  dump_stack+0x10/0x20
  __schedule_bug+0x120/0x170
  __schedule+0x300c/0x4800
  schedule_rtlock+0x37/0x60
  rtlock_slowlock_locked+0x6d9/0x54c0
  rt_spin_lock+0x168/0x230
  hrtimer_cancel_wait_running+0xe9/0x1b0
  hrtimer_cancel+0x24/0x30
  bpf_timer_delete_work+0x1d/0x40
  bpf_timer_cancel_and_free+0x5e/0x80
  bpf_obj_free_fields+0x262/0x4a0
  check_and_free_fields+0x1d0/0x280
  htab_map_update_elem+0x7fc/0x1500
  bpf_prog_9f90bc20768e0cb9_overwrite_cb+0x3f/0x43
  bpf_prog_ea601c4649694dbd_overwrite_timer+0x5d/0x7e
  bpf_prog_test_run_syscall+0x322/0x830
  __sys_bpf+0x135d/0x3ca0
  __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0
  x64_sys_call+0x1b5/0xa10
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  ...
  

It seems feasible to break the reuse and refill of per-cpu extra_elems
into two independent parts: reuse the per-cpu extra_elems with bucket
lock being held and refill the old_element as per-cpu extra_elems after
the bucket lock is unlocked. However, it will make the concurrent
overwrite procedures on the same CPU return unexpected -E2BIG error when
the map is full.

Therefore, the patch fixes the lock problem by breaking the cancelling
of bpf_timer into two steps for PREEMPT_RT:
1) use hrtimer_try_to_cancel() and check its return value
2) if the timer is running, use hrtimer_cancel() through a kworker to
   cancel it again
Considering that the current implementation of hrtimer_cancel() will try
to acquire a being held softirq_expiry_lock when the current timer is
running, these steps above are reasonable. However, it also has
downside. When the timer is running, the cancelling of the timer is
delayed when releasing the last map uref. The delay is also fixable
(e.g., break the cancelling of bpf timer into two parts: one part in
locked scope, another one in unlocked scope), it can be revised later if
necessary.

It is a bit hard to decide the right fix tag. One reason is that the
problem depends on PREEMPT_RT which is enabled in v6.12. Considering the
softirq_expiry_lock lock exists since v5.4 and bpf_timer is introduced
in v5.15, the bpf_timer commit is used in the fixes tag and an extra
depends-on tag is added to state the dependency on PREEMPT_RT.

Fixes: b00628b1c7d5 ("bpf: Introduce bpf timers.")
Depends-on: v6.12+ with PREEMPT_RT enabled
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241106084527.4gPrMnHt@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao 
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250117101816.2101857-5-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bpf: Use __u64 to save the bits in bits iterator

2024-10-30T19:13:46+00:00

On 32-bit hosts (e.g., arm32), when a bpf program passes a u64 to
bpf_iter_bits_new(), bpf_iter_bits_new() will use bits_copy to store the
content of the u64. However, bits_copy is only 4 bytes, leading to stack
corruption.

The straightforward solution would be to replace u64 with unsigned long
in bpf_iter_bits_new(). However, this introduces confusion and problems
for 32-bit hosts because the size of ulong in bpf program is 8 bytes,
but it is treated as 4-bytes after passed to bpf_iter_bits_new().

Fix it by changing the type of both bits and bit_count from unsigned
long to u64. However, the change is not enough. The main reason is that
bpf_iter_bits_next() uses find_next_bit() to find the next bit and the
pointer passed to find_next_bit() is an unsigned long pointer instead
of a u64 pointer. For 32-bit little-endian host, it is fine but it is
not the case for 32-bit big-endian host. Because under 32-bit big-endian
host, the first iterated unsigned long will be the bits 32-63 of the u64
instead of the expected bits 0-31. Therefore, in addition to changing
the type, swap the two unsigned longs within the u64 for 32-bit
big-endian host.

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241030100516.3633640-5-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: Check the validity of nr_words in bpf_iter_bits_new()

2024-10-30T19:13:46+00:00

Check the validity of nr_words in bpf_iter_bits_new(). Without this
check, when multiplication overflow occurs for nr_bits (e.g., when
nr_words = 0x0400-0001, nr_bits becomes 64), stack corruption may occur
due to bpf_probe_read_kernel_common(..., nr_bytes = 0x2000-0008).

Fix it by limiting the maximum value of nr_words to 511. The value is
derived from the current implementation of BPF memory allocator. To
ensure compatibility if the BPF memory allocator's size limitation
changes in the future, use the helper bpf_mem_alloc_check_size() to
check whether nr_bytes is too larger. And return -E2BIG instead of
-ENOMEM for oversized nr_bytes.

Fixes: 4665415975b0 ("bpf: Add bits iterator")
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241030100516.3633640-4-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: Free dynamically allocated bits in bpf_iter_bits_destroy()

2024-10-30T19:13:46+00:00

bpf_iter_bits_destroy() uses "kit->nr_bits <= 64" to check whether the
bits are dynamically allocated. However, the check is incorrect and may
cause a kmemleak as shown below:

unreferenced object 0xffff88812628c8c0 (size 32):
  comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294727320
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
	b0 c1 55 f5 81 88 ff ff f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0  ..U...........
	f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ..............
  backtrace (crc 781e32cc):
	[<00000000c452b4ab>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4b/0x80
	[<0000000004e09f80>] __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x480/0x5c0
	[<00000000597124d6>] __alloc.isra.0+0x89/0xb0
	[<000000004ebfffcd>] alloc_bulk+0x2af/0x720
	[<00000000d9c10145>] prefill_mem_cache+0x7f/0xb0
	[<00000000ff9738ff>] bpf_mem_alloc_init+0x3e2/0x610
	[<000000008b616eac>] bpf_global_ma_init+0x19/0x30
	[<00000000fc473efc>] do_one_initcall+0xd3/0x3c0
	[<00000000ec81498c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x66a/0x940
	[<00000000b119f72f>] kernel_init+0x20/0x160
	[<00000000f11ac9a7>] ret_from_fork+0x3c/0x70
	[<0000000004671da4>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

That is because nr_bits will be set as zero in bpf_iter_bits_next()
after all bits have been iterated.

Fix the issue by setting kit->bit to kit->nr_bits instead of setting
kit->nr_bits to zero when the iteration completes in
bpf_iter_bits_next(). In addition, use "!nr_bits || bits >= nr_bits" to
check whether the iteration is complete and still use "nr_bits > 64" to
indicate whether bits are dynamically allocated. The "!nr_bits" check is
necessary because bpf_iter_bits_new() may fail before setting
kit->nr_bits, and this condition will stop the iteration early instead
of accessing the zeroed or freed kit->bits.

Considering the initial value of kit->bits is -1 and the type of
kit->nr_bits is unsigned int, change the type of kit->nr_bits to int.
The potential overflow problem will be handled in the following patch.

Fixes: 4665415975b0 ("bpf: Add bits iterator")
Acked-by: Yafang Shao 
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241030100516.3633640-2-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: Add MEM_WRITE attribute

2024-10-22T22:42:56+00:00

Add a MEM_WRITE attribute for BPF helper functions which can be used in
bpf_func_proto to annotate an argument type in order to let the verifier
know that the helper writes into the memory passed as an argument. In
the past MEM_UNINIT has been (ab)used for this function, but the latter
merely tells the verifier that the passed memory can be uninitialized.

There have been bugs with overloading the latter but aside from that
there are also cases where the passed memory is read + written which
currently cannot be expressed, see also 4b3786a6c539 ("bpf: Zero former
ARG_PTR_TO_{LONG,INT} args in case of error").

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241021152809.33343-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov