BPF List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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>, Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>,
	Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>,
	Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/2] bpf: Reject offset refcount acquire arguments
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:04:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1781963957.git.chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1781852308.git.chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>

bpf_refcount_acquire() is modeled as returning a refcounted allocation
base, but it currently accepts PTR_TO_BTF_ID | MEM_ALLOC arguments whose
offset already points at an embedded graph node returned from a list or
rbtree operation.

At runtime the kfunc starts from the supplied pointer and adds the type's
refcount offset. With a graph-node pointer, that starts from base +
node_off, while the verifier treats the returned pointer as the allocation
base. Reject non-zero fixed-offset arguments to keep the runtime operation
and the verifier model aligned.

Programs that pop graph nodes can still acquire a reference after
normalizing the node pointer with container_of().

Patch 1 adds a PTR_ZERO_OFF argument flag and handles the zero fixed-offset
requirement through check_func_arg_reg_off() / __check_ptr_off_reg().

Patch 2 adds rejected direct list and rbtree node cases.

Changes from v1:
  - Move zero fixed-offset enforcement into check_func_arg_reg_off() /
    __check_ptr_off_reg(), as suggested by Eduard.
  - Drop the positive container_of() selftest case.
  - Remove the stale bpf_obj_drop() after bpf_list_push_front(), since the
    pushed reference is consumed even when the verifier explores the error
    branch.
  - Add a Fixes tag to the selftest patch.
  - Rebase to bpf-next master a975094bf98c.

Yiyang Chen (2):
  bpf: Reject offset refcount acquire arguments
  selftests/bpf: Cover refcount acquire node offsets

 include/linux/bpf.h                           |  3 +
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c                         | 18 +++--
 .../bpf/progs/refcounted_kptr_fail.c          | 77 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)


base-commit: a975094bf98ca97be9146f9d3b5681a6f9cf5ce3
-- 
2.34.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-20 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-19  7:59 [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] bpf: Reject offset refcount acquire arguments Yiyang Chen
2026-06-19  7:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] " Yiyang Chen
2026-06-19 19:28   ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-06-19  7:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests/bpf: Cover refcount acquire node offsets Yiyang Chen
2026-06-19  8:30   ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-19  8:47   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-06-19 19:30   ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-06-20 15:04 ` Yiyang Chen [this message]
2026-06-20 15:04   ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/2] bpf: Reject offset refcount acquire arguments Yiyang Chen
2026-06-20 17:48     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-06-20 15:04   ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 2/2] selftests/bpf: Cover refcount acquire node offsets Yiyang Chen
2026-06-22  2:25   ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/2] bpf: Reject offset refcount acquire arguments Yiyang Chen
2026-06-22  2:25     ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/2] " Yiyang Chen
2026-06-22 22:27       ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-06-22  2:25     ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/2] selftests/bpf: Cover refcount acquire node offsets Yiyang Chen
2026-06-22 22:30       ` Eduard Zingerman

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=cover.1781963957.git.chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn \
    --to=chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn \
    --cc=andrii@kernel.org \
    --cc=ast@kernel.org \
    --cc=bpf@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=daniel@iogearbox.net \
    --cc=davemarchevsky@fb.com \
    --cc=eddyz87@gmail.com \
    --cc=emil@etsalapatis.com \
    --cc=john.fastabend@gmail.com \
    --cc=jolsa@kernel.org \
    --cc=leon.hwang@linux.dev \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=martin.lau@linux.dev \
    --cc=memxor@gmail.com \
    --cc=shuah@kernel.org \
    --cc=song@kernel.org \
    --cc=vmalik@redhat.com \
    --cc=yonghong.song@linux.dev \
    /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 a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox