This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bpf: Check map->usercnt after timer->timer is assigned to the 6.5-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: bpf-check-map-usercnt-after-timer-timer-is-assigned.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f1becaca84f65514e04d48b74a3e206495b1db3f Author: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 30 14:36:16 2023 +0800 bpf: Check map->usercnt after timer->timer is assigned [ Upstream commit fd381ce60a2d79cc967506208085336d3d268ae0 ] When there are concurrent uref release and bpf timer init operations, the following sequence diagram is possible. It will break the guarantee provided by bpf_timer: bpf_timer will still be alive after userspace application releases or unpins the map. It also will lead to kmemleak for old kernel version which doesn't release bpf_timer when map is released. bpf program X: bpf_timer_init() lock timer->lock read timer->timer as NULL read map->usercnt != 0 process Y: close(map_fd) // put last uref bpf_map_put_uref() atomic_dec_and_test(map->usercnt) array_map_free_timers() bpf_timer_cancel_and_free() // just return read timer->timer is NULL t = bpf_map_kmalloc_node() timer->timer = t unlock timer->lock Fix the problem by checking map->usercnt after timer->timer is assigned, so when there are concurrent uref release and bpf timer init, either bpf_timer_cancel_and_free() from uref release reads a no-NULL timer or the newly-added atomic64_read() returns a zero usercnt. Because atomic_dec_and_test(map->usercnt) and READ_ONCE(timer->timer) in bpf_timer_cancel_and_free() are not protected by a lock, so add a memory barrier to guarantee the order between map->usercnt and timer->timer. Also use WRITE_ONCE(timer->timer, x) to match the lockless read of timer->timer in bpf_timer_cancel_and_free(). Reported-by: Hsin-Wei Hung <hsinweih@xxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CABcoxUaT2k9hWsS1tNgXyoU3E-=PuOgMn737qK984fbFmfYixQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: b00628b1c7d5 ("bpf: Introduce bpf timers.") Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231030063616.1653024-1-houtao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c index 3779300002327..add185dfa5c65 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c @@ -1174,13 +1174,6 @@ BPF_CALL_3(bpf_timer_init, struct bpf_timer_kern *, timer, struct bpf_map *, map ret = -EBUSY; goto out; } - if (!atomic64_read(&map->usercnt)) { - /* maps with timers must be either held by user space - * or pinned in bpffs. - */ - ret = -EPERM; - goto out; - } /* allocate hrtimer via map_kmalloc to use memcg accounting */ t = bpf_map_kmalloc_node(map, sizeof(*t), GFP_ATOMIC, map->numa_node); if (!t) { @@ -1193,7 +1186,21 @@ BPF_CALL_3(bpf_timer_init, struct bpf_timer_kern *, timer, struct bpf_map *, map rcu_assign_pointer(t->callback_fn, NULL); hrtimer_init(&t->timer, clockid, HRTIMER_MODE_REL_SOFT); t->timer.function = bpf_timer_cb; - timer->timer = t; + WRITE_ONCE(timer->timer, t); + /* Guarantee the order between timer->timer and map->usercnt. So + * when there are concurrent uref release and bpf timer init, either + * bpf_timer_cancel_and_free() called by uref release reads a no-NULL + * timer or atomic64_read() below returns a zero usercnt. + */ + smp_mb(); + if (!atomic64_read(&map->usercnt)) { + /* maps with timers must be either held by user space + * or pinned in bpffs. + */ + WRITE_ONCE(timer->timer, NULL); + kfree(t); + ret = -EPERM; + } out: __bpf_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timer->lock); return ret; @@ -1368,7 +1375,7 @@ void bpf_timer_cancel_and_free(void *val) /* The subsequent bpf_timer_start/cancel() helpers won't be able to use * this timer, since it won't be initialized. */ - timer->timer = NULL; + WRITE_ONCE(timer->timer, NULL); out: __bpf_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timer->lock); if (!t)