From: Yiyang Chen <chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Cc: Yiyang Chen <chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] bpf: Preserve RCU pointer nullness after unlock
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:17:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1781968391.git.chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> (raw)
bpf_rcu_read_unlock() converts MEM_RCU verifier registers to
PTR_UNTRUSTED, but currently clears PTR_MAYBE_NULL at the same time.
That loses the nullable state for BTF_TYPE_SAFE_RCU_OR_NULL fields such as
skb->sk. A program can read skb->sk while in an RCU read-side critical
section, unlock RCU, and then dereference the pointer directly without the
verifier requiring an explicit NULL check.
Patch 1 preserves PTR_MAYBE_NULL when removing MEM_RCU.
Patch 2 adds a focused regression test for the unchecked dereference and a
matched null-checked control.
Yiyang Chen (2):
bpf: Preserve nullable RCU pointer state on unlock
selftests/bpf: Cover nullable RCU pointer use after unlock
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 2 +-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/rcu_read_lock.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++
.../selftests/bpf/progs/rcu_read_lock.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
base-commit: a975094bf98ca97be9146f9d3b5681a6f9cf5ce3
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2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-20 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-20 15:17 Yiyang Chen [this message]
2026-06-20 15:17 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf: Preserve nullable RCU pointer state on unlock Yiyang Chen
2026-06-20 17:44 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-06-20 15:17 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests/bpf: Cover nullable RCU pointer use after unlock Yiyang Chen
2026-06-20 15:32 ` sashiko-bot
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