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From: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
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: bpf@vger.kernel.org, Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v1 1/4] bpf: Carry MEM_RCU for trusted fields with MEM_RCU parents
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:30:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261014173039.3666415-2-utilityemal77@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261014173039.3666415-1-utilityemal77@gmail.com>

Substitute MEM_RCU instead of PTR_TRUSTED for fields declared as trusted
when the parent pointer is MEM_RCU.

Today, walking a field in the __safe_trusted or __safe_trusted_or_null
set invariably yields PTR_TRUSTED if its parent is trusted. If the
parent is instead RCU protected, the resulting pointer survives
bpf_rcu_read_unlock() as fully trusted: it can be dereferenced without
PROBE_MEM and passed to kfuncs expecting trusted arguments after the
parent's RCU grace period, e.g. mm->exe_file (MEM_RCU) followed by
file->f_inode escapes the RCU CS as a trusted inode. Limit the child
field's lifetime to that of the parent.

Fixes: 6fcd486b3a0a ("bpf: Refactor RCU enforcement in the verifier.")
Signed-off-by: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 2f190abe3448..20ca8591a0fe 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -6684,9 +6684,9 @@ static int check_ptr_to_btf_access(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 		 * trusted if we are in an RCU CS. Such pointer can be NULL.
 		 */
 		if (type_is_trusted(env, reg, field_name, btf_id)) {
-			flag |= PTR_TRUSTED;
+			flag |= is_rcu_reg(reg) ? MEM_RCU : PTR_TRUSTED;
 		} else if (type_is_trusted_or_null(env, reg, field_name, btf_id)) {
-			flag |= PTR_TRUSTED | PTR_MAYBE_NULL;
+			flag |= (is_rcu_reg(reg) ? MEM_RCU : PTR_TRUSTED) | PTR_MAYBE_NULL;
 		} else if (in_rcu_cs(env) && !type_may_be_null(reg->type)) {
 			if (type_is_rcu(env, reg, field_name, btf_id)) {
 				/* ignore __rcu tag and mark it MEM_RCU */
-- 
2.55.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-14 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-14 17:30 [PATCH bpf-next v1 0/4] bpf: bound trusted fields to their parent's lifetime Justin Suess
2026-10-14 17:30 ` Justin Suess [this message]
2026-10-14 17:30 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 2/4] selftests/bpf: Test MEM_RCU carry-over for trusted fields Justin Suess
2026-10-14 17:43   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-14 18:05     ` Justin Suess
2026-10-14 17:30 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 3/4] bpf: Bind trusted fields to their parent's reference Justin Suess
2026-10-14 17:30 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 4/4] selftests/bpf: Test trusted-field invalidation on parent release Justin Suess

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