From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:01:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87qzs02ofv.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af090e53-9d9b-4412-8acb-957733b3975c@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> writes:
> syzbot is reporting
>
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for sit0 to become free. Usage count = 2
>
> problem. A debug printk() patch found that a refcount is obtained at
> xdp_convert_md_to_buff() from bpf_prog_test_run_xdp().
>
> According to commit ec94670fcb3b ("bpf: Support specifying ingress via
> xdp_md context in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN"), the refcount obtained by
> xdp_convert_md_to_buff() will be released by xdp_convert_buff_to_md().
>
> Therefore, we can consider that the error handling path introduced by
> commit 1c1949982524 ("bpf: introduce frags support to
> bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()") forgot to call xdp_convert_buff_to_md().
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+881d65229ca4f9ae8c84@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=881d65229ca4f9ae8c84
> Fixes: 1c1949982524 ("bpf: introduce frags support to bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()")
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> ---
> Since syzbot has no reproducer for this problem, I can't test this patch.
>
> net/bpf/test_run.c | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/bpf/test_run.c b/net/bpf/test_run.c
> index 655efac6f133..9a16293ba14b 100644
> --- a/net/bpf/test_run.c
> +++ b/net/bpf/test_run.c
> @@ -1355,13 +1355,13 @@ int bpf_prog_test_run_xdp(struct bpf_prog *prog, const union bpf_attr *kattr,
>
> if (sinfo->nr_frags == MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> - goto out;
> + goto out_put_dev;
> }
>
> page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!page) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> - goto out;
> + goto out_put_dev;
> }
>
> frag = &sinfo->frags[sinfo->nr_frags++];
> @@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@ int bpf_prog_test_run_xdp(struct bpf_prog *prog, const union bpf_attr *kattr,
> if (copy_from_user(page_address(page), data_in + size,
> data_len)) {
> ret = -EFAULT;
> - goto out;
> + goto out_put_dev;
> }
> sinfo->xdp_frags_size += data_len;
> size += data_len;
> @@ -1388,6 +1388,7 @@ int bpf_prog_test_run_xdp(struct bpf_prog *prog, const union bpf_attr *kattr,
> ret = bpf_test_run_xdp_live(prog, &xdp, repeat, batch_size, &duration);
> else
> ret = bpf_test_run(prog, &xdp, repeat, &retval, &duration, true);
> +out_put_dev:
> /* We convert the xdp_buff back to an xdp_md before checking the return
> * code so the reference count of any held netdevice will be decremented
> * even if the test run failed.
Hmm, this will end up call bpf_ctx_finish() in the error path, which I'm
not sure we want?
Could we just move the xdp_convert_md_to_buff() call to after the frags
have been copied? Not sure there's technically any dependency there,
even though it does look a little off?
-Toke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-08 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-08 12:36 [PATCH] bpf: fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() Tetsuo Handa
2026-01-08 14:01 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2026-01-08 14:18 ` Tetsuo Handa
2026-01-08 14:44 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2026-01-13 2:25 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87qzs02ofv.fsf@toke.dk \
--to=toke@redhat.com \
--cc=ast@kernel.org \
--cc=bpf@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=john.fastabend@gmail.com \
--cc=lorenzo@kernel.org \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.