From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "James Houghton" <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 03/10] bpf: Fail sleepable user copy helpers when current->mm is NULL
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:59:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sashiko-outbox-185773@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261026215226.3713941-4-jthoughton@google.com>
> Sleepable BPF programs can run on behalf of a kernel thread, or of a
> task that has already gone through exit_mm(). For example, bpf_wq
> callbacks always run from a kworker, bpf_task_work callbacks queued
> late enough run from exit_task_work(), and lsm.s or fentry.s programs
> may be attached to functions called during exit_files(),
> exit_task_work() or from kernel threads (e.g. security_file_release()
> from a kworker running delayed_fput()).
>
> In such contexts, bpf_copy_from_user(), bpf_copy_from_user_str() and
> bpf_copy_from_user{,_str}_dynptr() (when reading from the current task)
> call copy_from_user() or strncpy_from_user() without an mm. That access
> does not reliably fail: the user half of the address space belongs to
> whatever mm happens to be lazily loaded, if any, so the program may read
> another task's memory.
>
> As there is no user memory to read from in this case, fail with -EFAULT
> without attempting the access.
>
> Fixes: 07be4c4a3e7a ("bpf: Add bpf_copy_from_user() helper.")
> Fixes: 65ab5ac4df01 ("bpf: Add bpf_copy_from_user_str kfunc")
> Fixes: a498ee7576de ("bpf: Implement dynptr copy kfuncs")
> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues.
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Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261026215226.3713941-1-jthoughton@google.com?part=3
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-26 21:52 [RFC PATCH 00/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on user accesses when current->mm is NULL James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 01/10] scsi: bsg: Don't copy sense data to user memory when canceled James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:17 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-27 2:41 ` Jens Axboe
2026-10-27 17:52 ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 02/10] btrfs: Don't copy encoded read " James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:06 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-27 2:42 ` Jens Axboe
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 03/10] bpf: Fail sleepable user copy helpers when current->mm is NULL James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:59 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-10-26 22:30 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-27 18:50 ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 04/10] stacktrace: Don't unwind the user stack without an mm James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:59 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 22:30 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-26 22:55 ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 05/10] perf/core: " James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:58 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-27 11:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-10-27 17:45 ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 06/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on user copies when current->mm is NULL James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:08 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 22:42 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-26 23:41 ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 07/10] uaccess: Fail user nofault helpers quietly " James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:11 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 08/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on __copy_from_user_inatomic() without an mm James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:05 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 22:30 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-26 22:41 ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 09/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on more user accesses " James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:00 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] uaccess: Move the NULL mm warning out of line James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:02 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 23:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-26 23:51 ` James Houghton
2026-10-27 0:12 ` [RFC PATCH 00/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on user accesses when current->mm is NULL Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-27 10:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-27 17:29 ` James Houghton
2026-10-27 18:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-27 21:18 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-10-27 23:17 ` James Houghton
2026-10-28 23:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
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