* [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: arena: fix mmap_lock deadlock on arena lock failure
@ 2026-07-28 6:05 Jiayuan Chen
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From: Jiayuan Chen @ 2026-07-28 6:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bpf
Cc: Jiayuan Chen, Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann,
Andrii Nakryiko, Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi,
Martin KaFai Lau, Song Liu, Yonghong Song, Jiri Olsa,
Emil Tsalapatis, Puranjay Mohan, linux-kernel
Reported by the Sashiko AI review.
arena_vm_fault() returns VM_FAULT_RETRY when it can't take
arena->spinlock, but it never took mmap_lock. The fault path assumes a
VM_FAULT_RETRY handler already dropped mmap_lock and re-takes it on the
retry, so mmap_lock gets taken twice and can deadlock:
do_user_addr_fault()
{
fault = handle_mm_fault(...); // calls arena_vm_fault()
if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY)
goto retry; // re-locks mmap_lock
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
}
Return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS instead, for two reasons:
1. We could keep VM_FAULT_RETRY, but then we'd have to drop the fault
lock first and cap the retry ourselves, the way __folio_lock_or_retry()
does.
2. A failed raw_res_spin_lock_irqsave() already means a possible deadlock
was detected, so retrying just hits the same lock again.
So returning VM_FAULT_RETRY here is overkill.
Fixes: b8467290edab ("bpf: arena: make arena kfuncs any context safe")
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
---
target to bpf-next since I think it is moderate.
---
kernel/bpf/arena.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/arena.c b/kernel/bpf/arena.c
index 34f023a537fe..555ee2531ef9 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/arena.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/arena.c
@@ -490,8 +490,12 @@ static vm_fault_t arena_vm_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
kaddr = kbase + (u32)(vmf->address);
if (raw_res_spin_lock_irqsave(&arena->spinlock, flags))
- /* Make a reasonable effort to address impossible case */
- return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
+ /*
+ * A failed lock means a possible deadlock was detected. Don't
+ * return VM_FAULT_RETRY: this handler never took mmap_lock, but
+ * the fault path would re-take it on retry and deadlock. Fail.
+ */
+ return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
page = vmalloc_to_page((void *)kaddr);
if (page) {
--
2.43.0
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