This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bpf, perf: delay release of BPF prog after grace period to the 4.4-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-perf-delay-release-of-bpf-prog-after-grace-period.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Jul 6 16:50:47 PDT 2016 From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 21:38:11 +0200 Subject: bpf, perf: delay release of BPF prog after grace period From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ceb56070359b7329b5678b5d95a376fcb24767be ] Commit dead9f29ddcc ("perf: Fix race in BPF program unregister") moved destruction of BPF program from free_event_rcu() callback to __free_event(), which is problematic if used with tail calls: if prog A is attached as trace event directly, but at the same time present in a tail call map used by another trace event program elsewhere, then we need to delay destruction via RCU grace period since it can still be in use by the program doing the tail call (the prog first needs to be dropped from the tail call map, then trace event with prog A attached destroyed, so we get immediate destruction). Fixes: dead9f29ddcc ("perf: Fix race in BPF program unregister") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/bpf.h | 4 ++++ kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/bpf.h +++ b/include/linux/bpf.h @@ -198,6 +198,10 @@ static inline struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_ static inline void bpf_prog_put(struct bpf_prog *prog) { } + +static inline void bpf_prog_put_rcu(struct bpf_prog *prog) +{ +} #endif /* CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL */ /* verifier prototypes for helper functions called from eBPF programs */ --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7101,7 +7101,7 @@ static void perf_event_free_bpf_prog(str prog = event->tp_event->prog; if (prog) { event->tp_event->prog = NULL; - bpf_prog_put(prog); + bpf_prog_put_rcu(prog); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/bpf-perf-delay-release-of-bpf-prog-after-grace-period.patch queue-4.4/bpf-try-harder-on-clones-when-writing-into-skb.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html