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Fields whose types live in the map\nBTF keep pointing into it: a kptr to a local type refers to map->btf,\nand a list_head or rb_root field carries a value_rec owned by the struct\nmeta table of map->btf.\n\nThat borrowed state can outlive the map. When RCU callbacks are still in\nflight, bpf_mem_alloc_destroy() copies the allocator and defers the final\ndrain, together with the destructor context, to a workqueue.\nbpf_map_free() then frees map->record and drops the map's BTF reference\nas soon as map_free() returns. Once the program that loaded the BTF is\ngone as well, the BTF is freed while the worker still uses the\nduplicate. The worker dereferences it through btf_is_kernel() and\nbtf_find_struct_meta() in bpf_obj_free_fields() when destroying elements\nthat were freed under RCU, and through btf_is_kernel() in\nbtf_record_free() when releasing the context itself:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in btf_is_kernel+0x19/0x30\n Read of size 1 at addr ffff88811505dce8 by task kworker/u16:2/50\n Workqueue: events_unbound free_mem_alloc_deferred\n Call Trace:\n btf_is_kernel+0x19/0x30\n btf_record_free+0xc7/0xf0\n htab_dtor_ctx_free+0x1a/0x30\n free_mem_alloc_no_barrier+0x39/0x230\n free_mem_alloc_deferred+0x2a/0x40\n process_scheduled_works+0x5ce/0x9d0\n worker_thread+0x42a/0x5e0\n kthread+0x1f5/0x230\n ret_from_fork+0x1dd/0x390\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\n Allocated by task 358:\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x287/0x510\n btf_new_fd+0xf7/0x3d0\n __sys_bpf+0x487/0x840\n\n Freed by task 0:\n kfree+0x186/0x560\n rcu_core+0x6f6/0xd40\n\nFreeing a map that still holds more elements than the allocator's high\nwatermark is enough to get there, because the bulk free during teardown\nqueues the RCU callback that makes bpf_mem_alloc_destroy() defer.\nNon-preallocated hash maps and resizable hash maps both register the\ndestructor and are affected alike.\n\nKeep one reference on the map BTF in the destructor context. Every\nnon-kernel pointer in the duplicated record is either map->btf or memory\nowned by it, so a single reference covers kptrs, list heads, and rb\nroots, and mirrors what bpf_map_meta_alloc() does for the duplicated\nrecord of an inner map. Release it only after the duplicated record has\nbeen freed: the worker is preemptible and not in an RCU read-side\ncritical section, so dropping the last reference first would let the\nBTF be freed while btf_record_free() still reads its fields.", "affected": [ { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "versions": [ { "version": "1df97a7453eec80c1912c2d0360290a3970a7671", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "b506f5699e145196ee29d76cf1ca1cbb2202c055" }, { "version": "1df97a7453eec80c1912c2d0360290a3970a7671", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "ab39974240a0cff765f3bb9cce81d8001ffdb144" }, { "version": "451a84a3ad3c897c03181af433e7c98640730f1f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "51a17f0ce19c4ee2a25cf16c93490d509b1ebb0a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "6.12.112", "status": "affected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "6.13" }, { "version": "6.18.55", "status": "affected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "6.19" } ] }, { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "versions": [ { "version": "7.0", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "7.0" }, { "version": "7.2.10", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*" }, { "version": "7.3", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix", "lessThanOrEqual": "*" } ] } ] } } }