If it fails to attach fentry, the allocated bpf trampoline image will be left in the system. That can be verified by checking /proc/kallsyms. This meamleak can be verified by a simple bpf program as follows, SEC("fentry/trap_init") int fentry_run() { return 0; } It will fail to attach trap_init because this function is freed after kernel init, and then we can find the trampoline image is left in the system by checking /proc/kallsyms. $ tail /proc/kallsyms ffffffffc0613000 t bpf_trampoline_6442453466_1 [bpf] ffffffffc06c3000 t bpf_trampoline_6442453466_1 [bpf] $ bpftool btf dump file /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux | grep "FUNC 'trap_init'" [2522] FUNC 'trap_init' type_id=119 linkage=static $ echo $((6442453466 & 0x7fffffff)) 2522 Note that there are two left bpf trampoline images, that is because the libbpf will fallback to raw tracepoint if -EINVAL is returned. Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/bpf/trampoline.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/trampoline.c b/kernel/bpf/trampoline.c index ac021bc..7067cdf 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/trampoline.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/trampoline.c @@ -251,6 +251,15 @@ static int register_fentry(struct bpf_trampoline *tr, void *new_addr) return tlinks; } +static void bpf_tramp_image_free(struct bpf_tramp_image *im) +{ + bpf_image_ksym_del(&im->ksym); + bpf_jit_free_exec(im->image); + bpf_jit_uncharge_modmem(PAGE_SIZE); + percpu_ref_exit(&im->pcref); + kfree(im); +} + static void __bpf_tramp_image_put_deferred(struct work_struct *work) { struct bpf_tramp_image *im; @@ -438,7 +447,7 @@ static int bpf_trampoline_update(struct bpf_trampoline *tr, bool lock_direct_mut &tr->func.model, tr->flags, tlinks, tr->func.addr); if (err < 0) - goto out; + goto out_free; set_memory_rox((long)im->image, 1); @@ -468,7 +477,7 @@ static int bpf_trampoline_update(struct bpf_trampoline *tr, bool lock_direct_mut } #endif if (err) - goto out; + goto out_free; if (tr->cur_image) bpf_tramp_image_put(tr->cur_image); @@ -480,6 +489,10 @@ static int bpf_trampoline_update(struct bpf_trampoline *tr, bool lock_direct_mut tr->flags = orig_flags; kfree(tlinks); return err; + +out_free: + bpf_tramp_image_free(im); + goto out; } static enum bpf_tramp_prog_type bpf_attach_type_to_tramp(struct bpf_prog *prog) -- 1.8.3.1