[PATCH v2 bpf] bpf: Free reuseport cBPF prog after RCU grace period.

Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-04-26T01:26:50Z

Eulgyu Kim reported the splat below with a repro. [0]

The repro sets up a UDP reuseport group with a cBPF prog and
replaces it with a new one while another thread is sending
a UDP packet to the group.

The reuseport prog is freed by sk_reuseport_prog_free().
bpf_prog_put() is called for "e"BPF prog to destruct through
multiple stages while cBPF prog is freed immediately by
bpf_release_orig_filter() and bpf_prog_free().

If a reuseport prog is detached from the setsockopt() path
(reuseport_attach_prog() or reuseport_detach_prog()),
sk_reuseport_prog_free() is called without waiting for RCU
readers to complete, resulting in various bugs.

Let's defer freeing the reuseport cBPF prog after one RCU
grace period.

Note "e"BPF prog is safe as is unless the fast path starts
to touch fields destroyed in bpf_prog_put_deferred() and
__bpf_prog_put_noref().

[0]:
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in reuseport_select_sock+0xedc/0x1220 net/core/sock_reuseport.c:596
Read of size 4 at addr ffffc9000051e004 by task slowme/10208
CPU: 6 UID: 1000 PID: 10208 Comm: slowme Not tainted 7.0.0-geb7ac95ff75e #32 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
reuseport_select_sock+0xedc/0x1220 net/core/sock_reuseport.c:596
udp4_lib_lookup2+0x3bc/0x950 net/ipv4/udp.c:495
__udp4_lib_lookup+0x768/0xe20 net/ipv4/udp.c:723
__udp4_lib_lookup_skb+0x297/0x390 net/ipv4/udp.c:752
__udp4_lib_rcv+0x1312/0x2620 net/ipv4/udp.c:2752
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x282/0x440 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:207
ip_local_deliver_finish+0x3bb/0x6f0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:241
NF_HOOK+0x30c/0x3a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
NF_HOOK+0x30c/0x3a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318
__netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6181 [inline]
__netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6294 [inline]
process_backlog+0xaa4/0x1960 net/core/dev.c:6645
__napi_poll+0xae/0x340 net/core/dev.c:7709
napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7772 [inline]
net_rx_action+0x5d7/0xf50 net/core/dev.c:7929
handle_softirqs+0x22b/0x870 kernel/softirq.c:622
do_softirq+0x76/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:523
</IRQ>
<TASK>
__local_bh_enable_ip+0xf8/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:450
local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:924 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x1dd7/0x3710 net/core/dev.c:4890
neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:556 [inline]
ip_finish_output2+0xca9/0x1070 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
ip_output+0x29f/0x450 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:438
ip_send_skb+0x45/0xc0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1508
udp_send_skb+0xb04/0x1510 net/ipv4/udp.c:1195
udp_sendmsg+0x1a71/0x2350 net/ipv4/udp.c:1485
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
__sys_sendto+0x554/0x680 net/socket.c:2206
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2213 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2209 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2209
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x160/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x415a2d
Code: b3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f6bc31e41e8 EFLAGS: 00000212 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6bc31e4cdc RCX: 0000000000415a2d
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00007f6bc31e421f RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f6bc31e4240 R08: 00007f6bc31e4220 R09: 0000000000000010
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000212 R12: 00007f6bc31e46c0
R13: ffffffffffffffb8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007ffc9b0d70b0
</TASK>

Fixes: 538950a1b752 ("soreuseport: setsockopt SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF")
Reported-by: Eulgyu Kim <eulgyukim@snu.ac.kr>
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
---
v2: Drop unnecessary arg change.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260424235247.1990272-1-kuniyu@google.com/
---
net/core/filter.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index bc96c18df4e0..c77caebcf4d0 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -1654,15 +1654,24 @@ int sk_reuseport_attach_bpf(u32 ufd, struct sock *sk)
return err;
}

+static void sk_reuseport_prog_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
+{
+ struct bpf_prog_aux *aux = container_of(rcu, struct bpf_prog_aux, rcu);
+ struct bpf_prog *prog = aux->prog;
+
+ bpf_release_orig_filter(prog);
+ bpf_prog_free(prog);
+}
+
void sk_reuseport_prog_free(struct bpf_prog *prog)
{
if (!prog)
return;

- if (prog->type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_SK_REUSEPORT)
- bpf_prog_put(prog);
+ if (bpf_prog_was_classic(prog))
+ call_rcu(&prog->aux->rcu, sk_reuseport_prog_free_rcu);
else
- bpf_prog_destroy(prog);
+ bpf_prog_put(prog);
}

static inline int __bpf_try_make_writable(struct sk_buff *skb,
--
2.54.0.rc2.544.gc7ae2d5bb8-goog