From: Yiyang Chen <chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
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>
Cc: Yiyang Chen <chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@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>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>,
Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>,
Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf: Reject offset refcount acquire arguments
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:59:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa2336b329055908a401ec3b18f8498ebc03846f.1781852308.git.chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1781852308.git.chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
bpf_refcount_acquire() increments the refcount at the caller-supplied
pointer plus the refcount field offset, then returns the caller-supplied
pointer unchanged.
The verifier records the return value as a base pointer to the refcounted
object.
bpf_list_pop_front() and bpf_rbtree_remove() can return embedded graph-node
pointers as PTR_TO_BTF_ID | MEM_ALLOC with a fixed offset equal to the node
field offset. Passing such a pointer directly to bpf_refcount_acquire()
currently passes the refcounted-kptr type check.
That makes the runtime operation start from base + node_off while the
verifier models the returned pointer as the object base.
Require refcount-acquire arguments to have zero offset. Programs can still
acquire a refcount from a graph-node-derived pointer after normalizing it
with container_of().
Fixes: 7c50b1cb76aca ("bpf: Add bpf_refcount_acquire kfunc")
Signed-off-by: Yiyang Chen <chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 2abc79dbf..4510fe0b4 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -12392,6 +12392,11 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
reg_arg_name(env, argno));
return -EINVAL;
}
+ if (reg->var_off.value != 0) {
+ verbose(env, "%s must have zero offset when passed to %s\n",
+ reg_arg_name(env, argno), meta->func_name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
if (!type_is_non_owning_ref(reg->type))
meta->arg_owning_ref = true;
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-19 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-19 7:59 [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] " Yiyang Chen
2026-06-19 7:59 ` Yiyang Chen [this message]
2026-06-19 19:28 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] " Eduard Zingerman
2026-06-19 7:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests/bpf: Cover refcount acquire node offsets Yiyang Chen
2026-06-19 8:47 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-06-19 19:30 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-06-20 15:04 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/2] bpf: Reject offset refcount acquire arguments Yiyang Chen
2026-06-20 15:04 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/2] " Yiyang Chen
2026-06-20 17:48 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-06-20 15:04 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 2/2] selftests/bpf: Cover refcount acquire node offsets Yiyang Chen
2026-06-22 2:25 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/2] bpf: Reject offset refcount acquire arguments Yiyang Chen
2026-06-22 2:25 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/2] " Yiyang Chen
2026-06-22 22:27 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-06-22 2:25 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/2] selftests/bpf: Cover refcount acquire node offsets Yiyang Chen
2026-06-22 22:30 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-06-23 6:12 ` Yiyang Chen
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