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From: Artem Dinaburg <artem@trailofbits.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: andrii@kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, eddyz87@gmail.com, emil@etsalapatis.com,
	ihor.solodrai@linux.dev, jolsa@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, martin.lau@kernel.org,
	martin.lau@linux.dev, memxor@gmail.com, song@kernel.org,
	thevlad@meta.com, yonghong.song@linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH 6.6.y] bpf: Fix kmemleak warning for percpu hashmap
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:18:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261016021847.16847-1-artem@trailofbits.com> (raw)

From: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>

[ Upstream commit 11ba7ce076e5903e7bdc1fd1498979c331b3c286 ]

Vlad Poenaru reported the following kmemleak issue:

  unreferenced object 0x606fd7c44ac8 (size 32):
    backtrace (crc 0):
      pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x730/0xeb0
      bpf_map_alloc_percpu+0x69/0xc0
      prealloc_init+0x9d/0x1b0
      htab_map_alloc+0x363/0x510
      map_create+0x215/0x3a0
      __sys_bpf+0x16b/0x3e0
      __x64_sys_bpf+0x18/0x20
      do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Further investigation shows the reason is due to not 8-byte aligned
store of percpu pointer in htab_elem_set_ptr():
  *(void __percpu **)(l->key + key_size) = pptr;

Note that the whole htab_elem alignment is 8 (for x86_64). If the key_size
is 4, that means pptr is stored in a location which is 4 byte aligned but
not 8 byte aligned. In mm/kmemleak.c, scan_block() scans the memory based
on 8 byte stride, so it won't detect above pptr, hence reporting the memory
leak.

In htab_map_alloc(), we already have

        htab->elem_size = sizeof(struct htab_elem) +
                          round_up(htab->map.key_size, 8);
        if (percpu)
                htab->elem_size += sizeof(void *);
        else
                htab->elem_size += round_up(htab->map.value_size, 8);

So storing pptr with 8-byte alignment won't cause any problem and can fix
kmemleak too.

The issue can be reproduced with bpf selftest as well:
  1. Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK config
  2. Add a getchar() before skel destroy in test_hash_map() in prog_tests/for_each.c.
     The purpose is to keep map available so kmemleak can be detected.
  3. run './test_progs -t for_each/hash_map &' and a kmemleak should be reported.

Reported-by: Vlad Poenaru <thevlad@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224175514.2207227-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: LLM
[ Backport to 6.6.y: Omit the htab_percpu_map_gen_lookup() hunk;
  this target has no corresponding helper. ]
Signed-off-by: Artem Dinaburg <artem@trailofbits.com>
---
Hi,

Please consider this backport of the fix for CVE-2025-37807 to 6.6.y.

The code changes are identical to upstream, except the generated-lookup
hunk was omitted because 6.6.y has no htab_percpu_map_gen_lookup(); see
the bracketed backport note above.

The complete fix is already present in 6.12.y, 6.18.y and 7.2.y.

Build-tested only as part of a cumulative 6.6.y series on x86_64
(allmodconfig, CONFIG_WERROR=y); no runtime testing.

Thanks,
Artem Dinaburg

 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
index e14a0caa07bfadf9daf7720c065aca810165e310..fb7f64c494b0e3b181cea397b79327e1585a76ed 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
@@ -197,12 +197,12 @@ static bool htab_is_percpu(const struct bpf_htab *htab)
 static inline void htab_elem_set_ptr(struct htab_elem *l, u32 key_size,
 				     void __percpu *pptr)
 {
-	*(void __percpu **)(l->key + key_size) = pptr;
+	*(void __percpu **)(l->key + roundup(key_size, 8)) = pptr;
 }
 
 static inline void __percpu *htab_elem_get_ptr(struct htab_elem *l, u32 key_size)
 {
-	return *(void __percpu **)(l->key + key_size);
+	return *(void __percpu **)(l->key + roundup(key_size, 8));
 }
 
 static void *fd_htab_map_get_ptr(const struct bpf_map *map, struct htab_elem *l)

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