[PATCH 4.20 114/171] bpf: Fix syscalls stackmap lookup potential deadlock

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-03-12T18:03:15Z

[ Upstream commit 7c4cd051add3d00bbff008a133c936c515eaa8fe ]

The map_lookup_elem used to not acquiring spinlock
in order to optimize the reader.

It was true until commit 557c0c6e7df8 ("bpf: convert stackmap to pre-allocation")
The syscall's map_lookup_elem(stackmap) calls bpf_stackmap_copy().
bpf_stackmap_copy() may find the elem no longer needed after the copy is done.
If that is the case, pcpu_freelist_push() saves this elem for reuse later.
This push requires a spinlock.

If a tracing bpf_prog got run in the middle of the syscall's
map_lookup_elem(stackmap) and this tracing bpf_prog is calling
bpf_get_stackid(stackmap) which also requires the same pcpu_freelist's
spinlock, it may end up with a dead lock situation as reported by
Eric Dumazet in https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1030266/

The situation is the same as the syscall's map_update_elem() which
needs to acquire the pcpu_freelist's spinlock and could race
with tracing bpf_prog. Hence, this patch fixes it by protecting
bpf_stackmap_copy() with this_cpu_inc(bpf_prog_active)
to prevent tracing bpf_prog from running.

A later syscall's map_lookup_elem commit f1a2e44a3aec ("bpf: add queue and stack maps")
also acquires a spinlock and races with tracing bpf_prog similarly.
Hence, this patch is forward looking and protects the majority
of the map lookups. bpf_map_offload_lookup_elem() is the exception
since it is for network bpf_prog only (i.e. never called by tracing
bpf_prog).

Fixes: 557c0c6e7df8 ("bpf: convert stackmap to pre-allocation")
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index cf5040fd5434..5f03ddf7b615 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -712,8 +712,13 @@ static int map_lookup_elem(union bpf_attr *attr)

if (bpf_map_is_dev_bound(map)) {
err = bpf_map_offload_lookup_elem(map, key, value);
- } else if (map->map_type == BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_HASH ||
- map->map_type == BPF_MAP_TYPE_LRU_PERCPU_HASH) {
+ goto done;
+ }
+
+ preempt_disable();
+ this_cpu_inc(bpf_prog_active);
+ if (map->map_type == BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_HASH ||
+ map->map_type == BPF_MAP_TYPE_LRU_PERCPU_HASH) {
err = bpf_percpu_hash_copy(map, key, value);
} else if (map->map_type == BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY) {
err = bpf_percpu_array_copy(map, key, value);
@@ -743,7 +748,10 @@ static int map_lookup_elem(union bpf_attr *attr)
}
rcu_read_unlock();
}
+ this_cpu_dec(bpf_prog_active);
+ preempt_enable();

+done:
if (err)
goto free_value;

--
2.19.1