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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-56592"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-27T14:50:59.673Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:55:26.485Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56592"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56592.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56592"
title: "bpf: Call free_htab_elem() after htab_unlock_bucket()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Call free_htab_elem() after htab_unlock_bucket()\n\nFor htab of maps, when the map is removed from the htab, it may hold the\nlast reference of the map. bpf_map_fd_put_ptr() will invoke\nbpf_map_free_id() to free the id of the removed map element. However,\nbpf_map_fd_put_ptr() is invoked while holding a bucket lock\n(raw_spin_lock_t), and bpf_map_free_id() attempts to acquire map_idr_lock\n(spinlock_t), triggering the following lockdep warning:\n\n  =============================\n  [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]\n  6.11.0-rc4+ #49 Not tainted\n  -----------------------------\n  test_maps/4881 is trying to lock:\n  ffffffff84884578 (map_idr_lock){+...}-{3:3}, at: bpf_map_free_id.part.0+0x21/0x70\n  other info that might help us debug this:\n  context-{5:5}\n  2 locks held by test_maps/4881:\n   #0: ffffffff846caf60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: bpf_fd_htab_map_update_elem+0xf9/0x270\n   #1: ffff888149ced148 (&htab-\u003elockdep_key#2){....}-{2:2}, at: htab_map_update_elem+0x178/0xa80\n  stack backtrace:\n  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 4881 Comm: test_maps Not tainted 6.11.0-rc4+ #49\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), ...\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0xb0\n   dump_stack+0x10/0x20\n   __lock_acquire+0x73e/0x36c0\n   lock_acquire+0x182/0x450\n   _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x43/0x70\n   bpf_map_free_id.part.0+0x21/0x70\n   bpf_map_put+0xcf/0x110\n   bpf_map_fd_put_ptr+0x9a/0xb0\n   free_htab_elem+0x69/0xe0\n   htab_map_update_elem+0x50f/0xa80\n   bpf_fd_htab_map_update_elem+0x131/0x270\n   htab_map_update_elem+0x50f/0xa80\n   bpf_fd_htab_map_update_elem+0x131/0x270\n   bpf_map_update_value+0x266/0x380\n   __sys_bpf+0x21bb/0x36b0\n   __x64_sys_bpf+0x45/0x60\n   x64_sys_call+0x1b2a/0x20d0\n   do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x100\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nOne way to fix the lockdep warning is using raw_spinlock_t for\nmap_idr_lock as well. However, bpf_map_alloc_id() invokes\nidr_alloc_cyclic() after acquiring map_idr_lock, it will trigger a\nsimilar lockdep warning because the slab's lock (s-\u003ecpu_slab-\u003elock) is\nstill a spinlock.\n\nInstead of changing map_idr_lock's type, fix the issue by invoking\nhtab_put_fd_value() after htab_unlock_bucket(). However, only deferring\nthe invocation of htab_put_fd_value() is not enough, because the old map\npointers in htab of maps can not be saved during batched deletion.\nTherefore, also defer the invocation of free_htab_elem(), so these\nto-be-freed elements could be linked together similar to lru map.\n\nThere are four callers for -\u003emap_fd_put_ptr:\n\n(1) alloc_htab_elem() (through htab_put_fd_value())\nIt invokes -\u003emap_fd_put_ptr() under a raw_spinlock_t. The invocation of\nhtab_put_fd_value() can not simply move after htab_unlock_bucket(),\nbecause the old element has already been stashed in htab-\u003eextra_elems.\nIt may be reused immediately after htab_unlock_bucket() and the\ninvocation of htab_put_fd_value() after htab_unlock_bucket() may release\nthe newly-added element incorrectly. Therefore, saving the map pointer\nof the old element for htab of maps before unlocking the bucket and\nreleasing the map_ptr after unlock. Beside the map pointer in the old\nelement, should do the same thing for the special fields in the old\nelement as well.\n\n(2) free_htab_elem() (through htab_put_fd_value())\nIts caller includes __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_elem(),\nhtab_map_delete_elem() and __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch().\n\nFor htab_map_delete_elem(), simply invoke free_htab_elem() after\nhtab_unlock_bucket(). For __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch(), just\nlike lru map, linking the to-be-freed element into node_to_free list\nand invoking free_htab_elem() for these element after unlock. It is safe\nto reuse batch_flink as the link for node_to_free, because these\nelements have been removed from the hash llist.\n\nBecause htab of maps doesn't support lookup_and_delete operation,\n__htab_map_lookup_and_delete_elem() doesn't have the problem, so kept\nit as\n---truncated---"
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