From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
To: Woraphat Khiaodaeng <worapat.kd2@gmail.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Cc: io-uring@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org,
Woraphat Khiaodaeng <worapat.kd2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] io_uring/bpf-ops: reject re-registration of an already-bound ops
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:05:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pl0l7g9q.fsf@mailhost.krisman.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260717154537.129736-1-worapat.kd2@gmail.com>
Woraphat Khiaodaeng <worapat.kd2@gmail.com> writes:
> io_install_bpf() only rejects a second registration on the ctx side
> (ctx->bpf_ops) and sets the per-map back-pointer ops->priv
> unconditionally. The struct_ops link path never advances a map past
> BPF_STRUCT_OPS_STATE_READY, so the same io_uring_bpf_ops map can be
> registered more than once, and bpf_io_reg() re-resolves the target ring
> via fget(ops->ring_fd) on every call. A caller can therefore point the
> same ring_fd at a different io_ring_ctx between two BPF_LINK_CREATE
> calls.
>
> The second registration passes the ctx->bpf_ops check (the new ctx has
> none) and overwrites ops->priv, orphaning the first ctx. Teardown
> (io_eject_bpf()/bpf_io_unreg()) only reaches a ctx through ops->priv, so
> the orphaned ctx is never torn down: its ctx->loop_step keeps pointing
> into the struct_ops trampoline, which is freed once the map is gone. A
> later io_uring_enter() on the orphaned ring then calls the dangling
> ctx->loop_step from io_run_loop() -- a use-after-free of freed
> executable memory, reachable by a task with CAP_BPF + CAP_PERFMON.
>
> Reject registration when ops->priv is already set, as hid_bpf_reg()
> does for its struct_ops.
>
> Fixes: 98f37634b12b ("io_uring/bpf-ops: implement bpf ops registration")
> Signed-off-by: Woraphat Khiaodaeng <worapat.kd2@gmail.com>
Feel free to add,
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
can you send a testcase to add to liburing?
> ---
> io_uring/bpf-ops.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/io_uring/bpf-ops.c b/io_uring/bpf-ops.c
> index 5a50f0675..cf2bd068e 100644
> --- a/io_uring/bpf-ops.c
> +++ b/io_uring/bpf-ops.c
> @@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ static int io_install_bpf(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_uring_bpf_ops *ops)
>
> if (ctx->bpf_ops)
> return -EBUSY;
> + if (ops->priv)
> + return -EBUSY;
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ops->loop_step))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>
--
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
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2026-07-17 15:45 ` [PATCH] io_uring/bpf-ops: reject re-registration of an already-bound ops Woraphat Khiaodaeng
2026-07-17 16:05 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi [this message]
2026-07-18 2:30 ` [PATCH] test: add io_uring bpf-ops double-registration regression test Woraphat Khiaodaeng
2026-07-17 17:05 ` [PATCH] io_uring/bpf-ops: reject re-registration of an already-bound ops Pavel Begunkov
2026-07-17 17:05 ` Jens Axboe
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