From: Matthew Wood <thepacketgeek@gmail.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>,
Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>,
Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@huaweicloud.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] bpf, arm64: Fix text_mutex critical section in bpf_arch_text_poke()
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 21:40:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261002044050.1277356-1-thepacketgeek@gmail.com> (raw)
Widen the text_mutex critical section in bpf_arch_text_poke() to cover
the page permission changes made while updating a bpf prog's plt target.
When a long-jump trampoline is attached to or detached from a bpf prog,
the plt target at the end of the prog is currently updated before
text_mutex is taken, by temporarily making the page writable:
set_memory_rw(page);
WRITE_ONCE(plt->target, plt_target);
set_memory_ro(page);
Leaving this outside text_mutex assumes the page belongs only to the
prog being poked, whose pokes are already serialized by its trampoline
lock. Commit 1dad391daef1 ("bpf, arm64: use bpf_prog_pack for memory
management") broke that assumption; it switched the arm64 JIT to the bpf
prog pack allocator, which packs programs into small chunks of large
shared allocations, without updating bpf_arch_text_poke(). Since then,
unrelated progs (and their plts) commonly share a page. Two CPUs
attaching to or detaching from different target progs in the same page
hold different trampoline locks, so their permission changes can
interleave:
CPU A CPU B
set_memory_rw(page)
set_memory_rw(page)
WRITE_ONCE(plt_B->target, ...)
set_memory_ro(page)
WRITE_ONCE(plt_A->target, ...) <- permission fault
This was hit on a 64K page arm64 machine:
Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff80008f46d5f8
FSC = 0x0f: level 3 permission fault
pte=00c00200ea5a0783
pc : bpf_arch_text_poke+0x214/0x238
Call trace:
bpf_arch_text_poke+0x214/0x238 (P)
__bpf_trampoline_link_prog+0x1c8/0x470
bpf_trampoline_link_prog+0x64/0x90
bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x318/0x4a8
bpf_raw_tp_link_attach+0x104/0x258
bpf_raw_tracepoint_open+0x6c/0x90
__sys_bpf+0x134c/0x3e10
Fixes: 1dad391daef1 ("bpf, arm64: use bpf_prog_pack for memory management")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wood <thepacketgeek@gmail.com>
---
arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index 475e70653454..66fab0bfd3da 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -3338,12 +3338,20 @@ int bpf_arch_text_poke(void *ip, enum bpf_text_poke_type old_t,
*/
plt_target = (u64)&dummy_tramp;
+ /* pages of the bpf prog pack are shared between progs, so the
+ * set_memory_rw()/set_memory_ro() window below must be serialized
+ * against other pokers too.
+ */
+ mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
+
if (plt_target) {
/* non-zero plt_target indicates we're patching a bpf prog,
* which is read only.
*/
- if (set_memory_rw(PAGE_MASK & ((uintptr_t)&plt->target), 1))
- return -EFAULT;
+ if (set_memory_rw(PAGE_MASK & ((uintptr_t)&plt->target), 1)) {
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ goto out;
+ }
WRITE_ONCE(plt->target, plt_target);
set_memory_ro(PAGE_MASK & ((uintptr_t)&plt->target), 1);
/* since plt target points to either the new trampoline
@@ -3357,10 +3365,11 @@ int bpf_arch_text_poke(void *ip, enum bpf_text_poke_type old_t,
/* if the old target and the new target are both long jumps, no
* patching is required
*/
- if (old_insn == new_insn)
- return 0;
+ if (old_insn == new_insn) {
+ ret = 0;
+ goto out;
+ }
- mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
if (aarch64_insn_read(ip, &replaced)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out;
--
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next reply other threads:[~2026-10-02 4:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-02 4:40 Matthew Wood [this message]
2026-10-02 5:16 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-02 10:40 ` Puranjay Mohan
2026-10-02 11:21 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-10-02 11:37 ` Matthew Wood
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