bpf: Defer the free of inner map when necessary When updating or deleting an inner map in map array or map htab, the map may still be accessed by non-sleepable program or sleepable program. However bpf_map_fd_put_ptr() decreases the ref-counter of the inner map directly through bpf_map_put(), if the ref-counter is the last one (which is true for most cases), the inner map will be freed by ops->map_free() in a kworker. But for now, most .map_free() callbacks don't use synchronize_rcu() or its variants to wait for the elapse of a RCU grace period, so after the invocation of ops->map_free completes, the bpf program which is accessing the inner map may incur use-after-free problem. Fix the free of inner map by invoking bpf_map_free_deferred() after both one RCU grace period and one tasks trace RCU grace period if the inner map has been removed from the outer map before. The deferment is accomplished by using call_rcu() or call_rcu_tasks_trace() when releasing the last ref-counter of bpf map. The newly-added rcu_head field in bpf_map shares the same storage space with work field to reduce the size of bpf_map.
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2265670]
Issue introduced in 5.9 with commit 638e4b825d52 and fixed in 6.1.75 with commit 62fca83303d6 Issue introduced in 5.9 with commit 638e4b825d52 and fixed in 6.6.14 with commit f91cd728b10c Issue introduced in 5.9 with commit 638e4b825d52 and fixed in 6.7.2 with commit bfd9b20c4862 Issue introduced in 5.9 with commit 638e4b825d52 and fixed in 6.8-rc1 with commit 876673364161
This was fixed for Fedora with the 6.6.14 stable kernel updates.
The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2023-52447 is: CHECK Maybe valid. Check manually. with impact LOW (that is an approximation based on flags INIT BPF UAF ; these flags parsed automatically based on patch data). Such automatic check happens only for Low/Moderates (and only when not from reporter, but parsing already existing CVE). Highs always checked manually (I check it myself and then we check it again in Remediation team). In rare cases some of the Moderates could be increased to High later.