From: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Klara Modin reported warnings for a kernel configured with BPF_JIT but without MODULES: [ 44.131296] Trying to vfree() bad address (000000004a17c299) [ 44.138024] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 193 at mm/vmalloc.c:3189 remove_vm_area (mm/vmalloc.c:3189 (discriminator 1)) [ 44.146675] CPU: 1 PID: 193 Comm: kworker/1:2 Tainted: G D W 6.9.0-01786-g2c9e5d4a0082 #25 [ 44.158229] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (DT) [ 44.164433] Workqueue: events bpf_prog_free_deferred [ 44.170492] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 44.178601] pc : remove_vm_area (mm/vmalloc.c:3189 (discriminator 1)) [ 44.183705] lr : remove_vm_area (mm/vmalloc.c:3189 (discriminator 1)) [ 44.188772] sp : ffff800082a13c70 [ 44.193112] x29: ffff800082a13c70 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000 [ 44.201384] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff00003a44efa0 x24: 00000000d4202000 [ 44.209658] x23: ffff800081223dd0 x22: ffff00003a198a40 x21: ffff8000814dd880 [ 44.217924] x20: 00000000d4202000 x19: ffff8000814dd880 x18: 0000000000000006 [ 44.226206] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000020 x15: 0000000000000002 [ 44.234460] x14: ffff8000811a6370 x13: 0000000020000000 x12: 0000000000000000 [ 44.242710] x11: ffff8000811a6370 x10: 0000000000000144 x9 : ffff8000811fe370 [ 44.250959] x8 : 0000000000017fe8 x7 : 00000000fffff000 x6 : ffff8000811fe370 [ 44.259206] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ 44.267457] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff000002203240 [ 44.275703] Call trace: [ 44.279158] remove_vm_area (mm/vmalloc.c:3189 (discriminator 1)) [ 44.283858] vfree (mm/vmalloc.c:3322) [ 44.287835] execmem_free (mm/execmem.c:70) [ 44.292347] bpf_jit_free_exec+0x10/0x1c [ 44.297283] bpf_prog_pack_free (kernel/bpf/core.c:1006) [ 44.302457] bpf_jit_binary_pack_free (kernel/bpf/core.c:1195) [ 44.307951] bpf_jit_free (include/linux/filter.h:1083 arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c:2474) [ 44.312342] bpf_prog_free_deferred (kernel/bpf/core.c:2785) [ 44.317785] process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3273) [ 44.322684] worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3342 (discriminator 2) kernel/workqueue.c:3429 (discriminator 2)) [ 44.327292] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:388) [ 44.331342] ret_from_fork (arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:861) The problem is because bpf_arch_text_copy() silently fails to write to the read-only area as a result of patch_map() faulting and the resulting -EFAULT being chucked away. Update patch_map() to use CONFIG_EXECMEM instead of CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX to check for vmalloc addresses. Fixes: 2c9e5d4a0082 ("bpf: remove CONFIG_BPF_JIT dependency on CONFIG_MODULES of") Reported-by: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@xxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7983fbbf-0127-457c-9394-8d6e4299c685@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Andrew, if you can pick this up before -rc1 it won't need to wait for arm64 tree rebase arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c index 255534930368..945df74005c7 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static void __kprobes *patch_map(void *addr, int fixmap) if (image) page = phys_to_page(__pa_symbol(addr)); - else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX)) + else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EXECMEM)) page = vmalloc_to_page(addr); else return addr; base-commit: 8f6a15f095a63a83b096d9b29aaff4f0fbe6f6e6 -- 2.43.0