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There is a race window where BPF hash map elements can leak special fields if the program with access to the map value recreates these special fields between the check_and_free_fields done on the map value and its eventual return to the memory allocator. Several ways were explored prior to this patch, most notably [0] tried to use a poison value to reject attempts to recreate special fields for map values that have been logically deleted but still accessible to BPF programs (either while sitting in the free list or when reused). While this approach works well for task work, timers, wq, etc., it is harder to apply the idea to kptrs, which have a similar race and failure mode. Instead, we change bpf_mem_alloc to allow registering destructor for allocated elements, such that when they are returned to the allocator, any special fields created while they were accessible to programs in the mean time will be freed. If these values get reused, we do not free the fields again before handing the element back. The special fields thus may remain initialized while the map value sits in a free list. When bpf_mem_alloc is retired in the future, a similar concept can be introduced to kmalloc_nolock-backed kmem_cache, paired with the existing idea of a constructor. Note that the destructor registration happens in map_check_btf, after the BTF record is populated and (at that point) avaiable for inspection and duplication. Duplication is necessary since the freeing of embedded bpf_mem_alloc can be decoupled from actual map lifetime due to logic introduced to reduce the cost of rcu_barrier()s in mem alloc free path in |
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