Given .BTF section is not allocatable, it will get trimmed after module is loaded. BPF system handles that properly by creating an independent copy of data. But prevent any accidental misused by resetting the pointer to BTF data. Suggested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 36e68442d1af ("bpf: Load and verify kernel module BTFs") Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/module.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index f2996b02ab2e..18f259d61d14 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -3709,6 +3709,11 @@ static noinline int do_init_module(struct module *mod) mod->init_layout.ro_size = 0; mod->init_layout.ro_after_init_size = 0; mod->init_layout.text_size = 0; +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES + /* .BTF is not SHF_ALLOC and will get removed, so sanitize pointer */ + mod->btf_data = NULL; + mod->btf_data_size = 0; +#endif /* * We want to free module_init, but be aware that kallsyms may be * walking this with preempt disabled. In all the failure paths, we -- 2.24.1