[PATCH bpf] bpf: Reject sleepable kprobe_multi programs at attach time

Varun R Mallya
2026-04-01T13:49:38Z

kprobe.multi programs run in atomic/RCU context and cannot sleep.
However, bpf_kprobe_multi_link_attach() did not validate whether the
program being attached had the sleepable flag set, allowing sleepable
helpers such as bpf_copy_from_user() to be invoked from a non-sleepable
context.

This causes a "sleeping function called from invalid context" splat:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/uaccess.h:169
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1787, name: sudo
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 0

Fix this by rejecting sleepable programs early in
bpf_kprobe_multi_link_attach(), before any further processing.

Fixes: 0dcac272540613d41c05e89679e4ddb978b612f1 ("bpf: Add multi kprobe link")
Signed-off-by: Varun R Mallya <varunrmallya@gmail.com>
---
kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index 0b040a417442..af7079aa0f36 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -2752,6 +2752,10 @@ int bpf_kprobe_multi_link_attach(const union bpf_attr *attr, struct bpf_prog *pr
if (!is_kprobe_multi(prog))
return -EINVAL;

+ /* kprobe_multi is not allowed to be sleepable. */
+ if (prog->sleepable)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/* Writing to context is not allowed for kprobes. */
if (prog->aux->kprobe_write_ctx)
return -EINVAL;
--
2.53.0