From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Florian and Eduard reported hard dead lock: [ 58.433327] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x50 [ 58.433334] btf_put+0x43/0x90 [ 58.433338] bpf_find_btf_id+0x157/0x240 [ 58.433353] btf_parse_fields+0x921/0x11c0 This happens since btf->refcount can be 1 at the time of btf_put() and btf_put() will call btf_free_id() which will try to grab btf_idr_lock and will dead lock. Avoid the issue by doing btf_put() without locking. Reported-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 3d78417b60fb ("bpf: Add bpf_btf_find_by_name_kind() helper.") Fixes: 1e89106da253 ("bpf: Add bpf_core_add_cands() and wire it into bpf_core_apply_relo_insn().") Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/bpf/btf.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/btf.c b/kernel/bpf/btf.c index a0887ee44e89..7db4ec125fbd 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/btf.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/btf.c @@ -577,8 +577,8 @@ static s32 bpf_find_btf_id(const char *name, u32 kind, struct btf **btf_p) *btf_p = btf; return ret; } - spin_lock_bh(&btf_idr_lock); btf_put(btf); + spin_lock_bh(&btf_idr_lock); } spin_unlock_bh(&btf_idr_lock); return ret; @@ -8354,12 +8354,10 @@ bpf_core_find_cands(struct bpf_core_ctx *ctx, u32 local_type_id) btf_get(mod_btf); spin_unlock_bh(&btf_idr_lock); cands = bpf_core_add_cands(cands, mod_btf, btf_nr_types(main_btf)); - if (IS_ERR(cands)) { - btf_put(mod_btf); + btf_put(mod_btf); + if (IS_ERR(cands)) return ERR_CAST(cands); - } spin_lock_bh(&btf_idr_lock); - btf_put(mod_btf); } spin_unlock_bh(&btf_idr_lock); /* cands is a pointer to kmalloced memory here if cands->cnt > 0 -- 2.34.1