From: Andrii Nakryiko andrii@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit f44ec8733a8469143fde1984b5e6931b2e2f6f3f ]
In general, BPF link's underlying BPF program should be considered to be reachable through attach hook -> link -> prog chain, and, pessimistically, we have to assume that as long as link's memory is not safe to free, attach hook's code might hold a pointer to BPF program and use it.
As such, it's not (generally) correct to put link's program early before waiting for RCU GPs to go through. More eager bpf_prog_put() that we currently do is mostly correct due to BPF program's release code doing similar RCU GP waiting, but as will be shown in the following patches, BPF program can be non-sleepable (and, thus, reliant on only "classic" RCU GP), while BPF link's attach hook can have sleepable semantics and needs to be protected by RCU Tasks Trace, and for such cases BPF link has to go through RCU Tasks Trace + "classic" RCU GPs before being deallocated. And so, if we put BPF program early, we might free BPF program before we free BPF link, leading to use-after-free situation.
So, this patch defers bpf_prog_put() until we are ready to perform bpf_link's deallocation. At worst, this delays BPF program freeing by one extra RCU GP, but that seems completely acceptable. Alternatively, we'd need more elaborate ways to determine BPF hook, BPF link, and BPF program lifetimes, and how they relate to each other, which seems like an unnecessary complication.
Note, for most BPF links we still will perform eager bpf_prog_put() and link dealloc, so for those BPF links there are no observable changes whatsoever. Only BPF links that use deferred dealloc might notice slightly delayed freeing of BPF programs.
Also, to reduce code and logic duplication, extract program put + link dealloc logic into bpf_link_dealloc() helper.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241101181754.782341-1-andrii@kernel.org Tested-by: Jordan Rife jrife@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c index b282ed1250358..8db9dd14472d0 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c @@ -3043,12 +3043,24 @@ void bpf_link_inc(struct bpf_link *link) atomic64_inc(&link->refcnt); }
+static void bpf_link_dealloc(struct bpf_link *link) +{ + /* now that we know that bpf_link itself can't be reached, put underlying BPF program */ + if (link->prog) + bpf_prog_put(link->prog); + + /* free bpf_link and its containing memory */ + if (link->ops->dealloc_deferred) + link->ops->dealloc_deferred(link); + else + link->ops->dealloc(link); +} + static void bpf_link_defer_dealloc_rcu_gp(struct rcu_head *rcu) { struct bpf_link *link = container_of(rcu, struct bpf_link, rcu);
- /* free bpf_link and its containing memory */ - link->ops->dealloc_deferred(link); + bpf_link_dealloc(link); }
static void bpf_link_defer_dealloc_mult_rcu_gp(struct rcu_head *rcu) @@ -3070,7 +3082,6 @@ static void bpf_link_free(struct bpf_link *link) sleepable = link->prog->sleepable; /* detach BPF program, clean up used resources */ ops->release(link); - bpf_prog_put(link->prog); } if (ops->dealloc_deferred) { /* schedule BPF link deallocation; if underlying BPF program @@ -3081,8 +3092,9 @@ static void bpf_link_free(struct bpf_link *link) call_rcu_tasks_trace(&link->rcu, bpf_link_defer_dealloc_mult_rcu_gp); else call_rcu(&link->rcu, bpf_link_defer_dealloc_rcu_gp); - } else if (ops->dealloc) - ops->dealloc(link); + } else if (ops->dealloc) { + bpf_link_dealloc(link); + } }
static void bpf_link_put_deferred(struct work_struct *work)