bpf: Fix a race condition between btf_put() and map_free() When running `./test_progs -j` in my local vm with latest kernel, I once hit a kasan error like below: [ 1887.184724] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bpf_rb_root_free+0x1f8/0x2b0 [ 1887.185599] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888106806910 by task kworker/u12:2/2830 [ 1887.186498] [ 1887.186712] CPU: 3 PID: 2830 Comm: kworker/u12:2 Tainted: G OEL 6.7.0-rc3-00699-g90679706d486-dirty #494 [ 1887.188034] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 1887.189618] Workqueue: events_unbound bpf_map_free_deferred [ 1887.190341] Call Trace: [ 1887.190666] <TASK> [ 1887.190949] dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0xe0 [ 1887.191423] ? nf_tcp_handle_invalid+0x1b0/0x1b0 [ 1887.192019] ? panic+0x3c0/0x3c0 [ 1887.192449] print_report+0x14f/0x720 [ 1887.192930] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0 [ 1887.193459] ? __virt_addr_valid+0xac/0x120 [ 1887.194004] ? bpf_rb_root_free+0x1f8/0x2b0 [ 1887.194572] kasan_report+0xc3/0x100 [ 1887.195085] ? bpf_rb_root_free+0x1f8/0x2b0 [ 1887.195668] bpf_rb_root_free+0x1f8/0x2b0 [ 1887.196183] ? __bpf_obj_drop_impl+0xb0/0xb0 [ 1887.196736] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0 [ 1887.197270] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0 [ 1887.197802] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1f/0x40 [ 1887.198319] bpf_obj_free_fields+0x1d4/0x260 [ 1887.198883] array_map_free+0x1a3/0x260 [ 1887.199380] bpf_map_free_deferred+0x7b/0xe0 [ 1887.199943] process_scheduled_works+0x3a2/0x6c0 [ 1887.200549] worker_thread+0x633/0x890 [ 1887.201047] ? __kthread_parkme+0xd7/0xf0 [ 1887.201574] ? kthread+0x102/0x1d0 [ 1887.202020] kthread+0x1ab/0x1d0 [ 1887.202447] ? pr_cont_work+0x270/0x270 [ 1887.202954] ? kthread_blkcg+0x50/0x50 [ 1887.203444] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50 [ 1887.203914] ? kthread_blkcg+0x50/0x50 [ 1887.204397] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 [ 1887.204913] </TASK> [ 1887.204913] </TASK> [ 1887.205209] [ 1887.205416] Allocated by task 2197: [ 1887.205881] kasan_set_track+0x3f/0x60 [ 1887.206366] __kasan_kmalloc+0x6e/0x80 [ 1887.206856] __kmalloc+0xac/0x1a0 [ 1887.207293] btf_parse_fields+0xa15/0x1480 [ 1887.207836] btf_parse_struct_metas+0x566/0x670 [ 1887.208387] btf_new_fd+0x294/0x4d0 [ 1887.208851] __sys_bpf+0x4ba/0x600 [ 1887.209292] __x64_sys_bpf+0x41/0x50 [ 1887.209762] do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xf0 [ 1887.210222] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b [ 1887.210868] [ 1887.211074] Freed by task 36: [ 1887.211460] kasan_set_track+0x3f/0x60 [ 1887.211951] kasan_save_free_info+0x28/0x40 [ 1887.212485] ____kasan_slab_free+0x101/0x180 [ 1887.213027] __kmem_cache_free+0xe4/0x210 [ 1887.213514] btf_free+0x5b/0x130 [ 1887.213918] rcu_core+0x638/0xcc0 [ 1887.214347] __do_softirq+0x114/0x37e The error happens at bpf_rb_root_free+0x1f8/0x2b0: 00000000000034c0 <bpf_rb_root_free>: ; { 34c0: f3 0f 1e fa endbr64 34c4: e8 00 00 00 00 callq 0x34c9 <bpf_rb_root_free+0x9> 34c9: 55 pushq %rbp 34ca: 48 89 e5 movq %rsp, %rbp ... ; if (rec && rec->refcount_off >= 0 && 36aa: 4d 85 ed testq %r13, %r13 36ad: 74 a9 je 0x3658 <bpf_rb_root_free+0x198> 36af: 49 8d 7d 10 leaq 0x10(%r13), %rdi 36b3: e8 00 00 00 00 callq 0x36b8 <bpf_rb_root_free+0x1f8> <==== kasan function 36b8: 45 8b 7d 10 movl 0x10(%r13), %r15d <==== use-after-free load 36bc: 45 85 ff testl %r15d, %r15d 36bf: 78 8c js 0x364d <bpf_rb_root_free+0x18d> So the problem is at rec->refcount_off in the above. I did some source code analysis and find the reason. CPU A CPU B bpf_map_put: ... btf_put with rcu callback ... bpf_map_free_deferred with system_unbound_wq ... ... ... ... btf_free_rcu: ... ... ... bpf_map_free_deferred: ... ... ... ---------> btf_struct_metas_free() ... | race condition ... ... ---------> map->ops->map_free() ... ... btf->struct_meta_tab = NULL In the above, map_free() corresponds to array_map_free() and eventually calling bpf_rb_root_free() which calls: ... __bpf_obj_drop_impl(obj, field->graph_root.value_rec, false); ... Here, 'value_rec' is assigned in btf_check_and_fixup_fields() with following code: meta = btf_find_struct_meta(btf, btf_id); if (!meta) return -EFAULT; rec->fields[i].graph_root.value_rec = meta->record; So basically, 'value_rec' is a pointer to the record in struct_metas_tab. And it is possible that that particular record has been freed by btf_struct_metas_free() and hence we have a kasan error here. Actually it is very hard to reproduce the failure with current bpf/bpf-next code, I only got the above error once. To increase reproducibility, I added a delay in bpf_map_free_deferred() to delay map->ops->map_free(), which significantly increased reproducibility. diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c index 5e43ddd1b83f..aae5b5213e93 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c @@ -695,6 +695,7 @@ static void bpf_map_free_deferred(struct work_struct *work) struct bpf_map *map = container_of(work, struct bpf_map, work); struct btf_record *rec = map->record; + mdelay(100); security_bpf_map_free(map); bpf_map_release_memcg(map); /* implementation dependent freeing */ Hao also provided test cases ([1]) for easily reproducing the above issue. There are two ways to fix the issue, the v1 of the patch ([2]) moving btf_put() after map_free callback, and the v5 of the patch ([3]) using a kptr style fix which tries to get a btf reference during map_check_btf(). Each approach has its pro and cons. The first approach delays freeing btf while the second approach needs to acquire reference depending on context which makes logic not very elegant and may complicate things with future new data structures. Alexei suggested in [4] going back to v1 which is what this patch tries to do. Rerun './test_progs -j' with the above mdelay() hack for a couple of times and didn't observe the error for the above rb_root test cases. Running Hou's test ([1]) is also successful. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231207141500.917136-1-houtao@huaweicloud.com/ [2] v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231204173946.3066377-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev/ [3] v5: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231208041621.2968241-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev/ [4] v4: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQJ3FiXUhZJwX_81sjZvSYYKCFB3BT6P8D59RS2Gu+0Z7g@mail.gmail.com/
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2265668]
Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit 958cf2e273f0 and fixed in 6.6.14 with commit d048dced8ea5 Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit 958cf2e273f0 and fixed in 6.7.2 with commit f9ff6ef1c73c Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit 958cf2e273f0 and fixed in 6.8-rc1 with commit 59e5791f59dd
This was fixed for Fedora with the 6.6.14 stable kernel updates.