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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 v2 1/2] bpf: Reject offset refcount acquire arguments
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:04:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <faad6ed6ab46008e1b0ca5c490a706dbebb80ea8.1781963957.git.chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1781963957.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 fixed offset by carrying
the requirement through check_func_arg_reg_off() to __check_ptr_off_reg().
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>
---
 include/linux/bpf.h   |  3 +++
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
index 7719f6528..b9b7d19cb 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
@@ -859,6 +859,9 @@ enum bpf_type_flag {
 	/* DYNPTR points to file */
 	DYNPTR_TYPE_FILE	= BIT(20 + BPF_BASE_TYPE_BITS),
 
+	/* PTR argument cannot have a fixed offset. */
+	PTR_ZERO_OFF		= BIT(21 + BPF_BASE_TYPE_BITS),
+
 	__BPF_TYPE_FLAG_MAX,
 	__BPF_TYPE_LAST_FLAG	= __BPF_TYPE_FLAG_MAX - 1,
 };
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 2abc79dbf..b41aee8c6 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -7994,8 +7994,11 @@ static int check_func_arg_reg_off(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 				  const struct bpf_reg_state *reg, argno_t argno,
 				  enum bpf_arg_type arg_type)
 {
+	bool fixed_off_ok = !(arg_type & PTR_ZERO_OFF);
 	u32 type = reg->type;
 
+	arg_type &= ~PTR_ZERO_OFF;
+
 	/* When referenced register is passed to release function, its fixed
 	 * offset must be 0.
 	 *
@@ -8048,13 +8051,12 @@ static int check_func_arg_reg_off(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 	case PTR_TO_BTF_ID | MEM_ALLOC | NON_OWN_REF:
 	case PTR_TO_BTF_ID | MEM_ALLOC | NON_OWN_REF | MEM_RCU:
 		/* When referenced PTR_TO_BTF_ID is passed to release function,
-		 * its fixed offset must be 0. In the other cases, fixed offset
-		 * can be non-zero. This was already checked above. So pass
-		 * fixed_off_ok as true to allow fixed offset for all other
-		 * cases. var_off always must be 0 for PTR_TO_BTF_ID, hence we
-		 * still need to do checks instead of returning.
+		 * or when the argument type requires zero fixed offset, its
+		 * fixed offset must be 0. In the other cases, fixed offset can
+		 * be non-zero. var_off always must be 0 for PTR_TO_BTF_ID,
+		 * hence we still need to do checks instead of returning.
 		 */
-		return __check_ptr_off_reg(env, reg, argno, true);
+		return __check_ptr_off_reg(env, reg, argno, fixed_off_ok);
 	case PTR_TO_CTX:
 		/*
 		 * Allow fixed and variable offsets for syscall context, but
@@ -12114,7 +12116,6 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
 		case KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM:
 		case KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM_SIZE:
 		case KF_ARG_PTR_TO_CALLBACK:
-		case KF_ARG_PTR_TO_REFCOUNTED_KPTR:
 		case KF_ARG_PTR_TO_CONST_STR:
 		case KF_ARG_PTR_TO_WORKQUEUE:
 		case KF_ARG_PTR_TO_TIMER:
@@ -12128,6 +12129,9 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
 		case KF_ARG_PTR_TO_CTX:
 			arg_type = ARG_PTR_TO_CTX;
 			break;
+		case KF_ARG_PTR_TO_REFCOUNTED_KPTR:
+			arg_type = ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID | PTR_ZERO_OFF;
+			break;
 		default:
 			verifier_bug(env, "unknown kfunc arg type %d", kf_arg_type);
 			return -EFAULT;
-- 
2.34.1


  reply	other threads:[~2026-06-20 15:04 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 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] " Yiyang Chen
2026-06-19 19:28   ` 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   ` Yiyang Chen [this message]
2026-06-20 17:48     ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/2] " 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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