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<title>bpf: Check tail zero of bpf_prog_info</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:16:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Hwang</name>
<email>leon.hwang@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-05T15:52:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 786be2b05980a5828e67fc564ad7517e2adbe9bd ]

Since there're 4 bytes padding at the end of struct bpf_prog_info, they
won't be checked by bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero().

pahole -C bpf_prog_info ./vmlinux
struct bpf_prog_info {
	...
	__u32                      attach_btf_obj_id;    /*   220     4 */
	__u32                      attach_btf_id;        /*   224     4 */

	/* size: 232, cachelines: 4, members: 38 */
	/* sum members: 224 */
	/* sum bitfield members: 1 bits, bit holes: 1, sum bit holes: 31 bits */
	/* padding: 4 */
	/* forced alignments: 9 */
	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));

If a future kernel extension adds a new 4-byte field, older userspace
programs allocating this structure on the stack might inadvertently pass
uninitialized stack garbage into the new field, permanently breaking
backward compatibility. -- sashiko [1]

Fix it by changing sizeof(info) to
offsetofend(struct bpf_prog_info, attach_btf_id).

And, add "__u32 :32" to the tail of struct bpf_prog_info.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260513224823.6494FC19425@smtp.kernel.org/

Fixes: aba64c7da983 ("bpf: Add verified_insns to bpf_prog_info and fdinfo")
Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605155249.20772-3-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 786be2b05980a5828e67fc564ad7517e2adbe9bd ]

Since there're 4 bytes padding at the end of struct bpf_prog_info, they
won't be checked by bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero().

pahole -C bpf_prog_info ./vmlinux
struct bpf_prog_info {
	...
	__u32                      attach_btf_obj_id;    /*   220     4 */
	__u32                      attach_btf_id;        /*   224     4 */

	/* size: 232, cachelines: 4, members: 38 */
	/* sum members: 224 */
	/* sum bitfield members: 1 bits, bit holes: 1, sum bit holes: 31 bits */
	/* padding: 4 */
	/* forced alignments: 9 */
	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));

If a future kernel extension adds a new 4-byte field, older userspace
programs allocating this structure on the stack might inadvertently pass
uninitialized stack garbage into the new field, permanently breaking
backward compatibility. -- sashiko [1]

Fix it by changing sizeof(info) to
offsetofend(struct bpf_prog_info, attach_btf_id).

And, add "__u32 :32" to the tail of struct bpf_prog_info.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260513224823.6494FC19425@smtp.kernel.org/

Fixes: aba64c7da983 ("bpf: Add verified_insns to bpf_prog_info and fdinfo")
Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605155249.20772-3-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Check tail zero of bpf_map_info</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:16:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Hwang</name>
<email>leon.hwang@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-05T15:52:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e2a49fdb1beed150125b4104c90eb2a96ec7f63a ]

Since there're 4 bytes padding at the end of struct bpf_map_info, they
won't be checked by bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero().

pahole -C bpf_map_info ./vmlinux
struct bpf_map_info {
	...
	__u64                      hash __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*    88     8 */
	__u32                      hash_size;            /*    96     4 */

	/* size: 104, cachelines: 2, members: 18 */
	/* padding: 4 */
	/* forced alignments: 1 */
	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));

If a future kernel extension adds a new 4-byte field, older userspace
programs allocating this structure on the stack might inadvertently pass
uninitialized stack garbage into the new field, permanently breaking
backward compatibility. -- sashiko [1]

Fix it by changing sizeof(info) to
offsetofend(struct bpf_map_info, hash_size).

And, add "__u32 :32" to the tail of struct bpf_map_info.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260513224823.6494FC19425@smtp.kernel.org/

Fixes: ea2e6467ac36 ("bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD")
Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605155249.20772-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e2a49fdb1beed150125b4104c90eb2a96ec7f63a ]

Since there're 4 bytes padding at the end of struct bpf_map_info, they
won't be checked by bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero().

pahole -C bpf_map_info ./vmlinux
struct bpf_map_info {
	...
	__u64                      hash __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*    88     8 */
	__u32                      hash_size;            /*    96     4 */

	/* size: 104, cachelines: 2, members: 18 */
	/* padding: 4 */
	/* forced alignments: 1 */
	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));

If a future kernel extension adds a new 4-byte field, older userspace
programs allocating this structure on the stack might inadvertently pass
uninitialized stack garbage into the new field, permanently breaking
backward compatibility. -- sashiko [1]

Fix it by changing sizeof(info) to
offsetofend(struct bpf_map_info, hash_size).

And, add "__u32 :32" to the tail of struct bpf_map_info.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260513224823.6494FC19425@smtp.kernel.org/

Fixes: ea2e6467ac36 ("bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD")
Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605155249.20772-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Reject non-exclusive metadata maps in the signed loader</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:15:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KP Singh</name>
<email>kpsingh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-01T15:02:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0fb6c9ed6493b4af01be8bb0a384574eba7df636 ]

The loader verifies map-&gt;sha against the metadata hash in its
instructions. map-&gt;sha is calculated when BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD is
called on the frozen map.

While the map is frozen, the /signed loader/ must also ensure the map
is exclusive, as, without exclusivity (which a hostile host could just
omit when loading the loader), another BPF program with map access can
mutate the contents afterwards, so the check passes on stale data.

With the extra check as part of the signed loader, it now refuses to
move on with map-&gt;sha validation if the host set it up wrongly.

Fixes: fb2b0e290147 ("libbpf: Update light skeleton for signing")
Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260601150248.394863-4-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0fb6c9ed6493b4af01be8bb0a384574eba7df636 ]

The loader verifies map-&gt;sha against the metadata hash in its
instructions. map-&gt;sha is calculated when BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD is
called on the frozen map.

While the map is frozen, the /signed loader/ must also ensure the map
is exclusive, as, without exclusivity (which a hostile host could just
omit when loading the loader), another BPF program with map access can
mutate the contents afterwards, so the check passes on stale data.

With the extra check as part of the signed loader, it now refuses to
move on with map-&gt;sha validation if the host set it up wrongly.

Fixes: fb2b0e290147 ("libbpf: Update light skeleton for signing")
Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260601150248.394863-4-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: fix BPF_PROG_QUERY OOB write and cgroup backward compat</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:15:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuyang Huang</name>
<email>yuyanghuang@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-31T07:55:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 21c4b99b27f3f85b89256e81b3e997dec0a460d0 ]

BPF_PROG_QUERY writes back the 'query.revision' field unconditionally to
userspace. If userspace passes a smaller 'bpf_attr' structure (e.g. 40
bytes, which was the layout before the addition of 'query.revision'),
the kernel performs an out-of-bounds write.

Fix this by propagating the user-provided attribute size 'uattr_size'
down to the cgroup query handlers, and conditionally skipping writing
the revision field to userspace when the provided buffer size is
insufficient.

query.revision in bpf_mprog_query is structurally identical to the
cgroup case: a late tail field, written unconditionally.

But the backward-compat hazard is not the same.

The min-historical-size test is per command, and bpf_mprog_query only
serves attach types that were born with revision in the struct:

- tcx_prog_query -&gt; BPF_TCX_INGRESS/EGRESS
- netkit_prog_query -&gt; BPF_NETKIT_PRIMARY/PEER

tcx, netkit, the revision field, and bpf_mprog_query itself all landed in
the same v6.6 merge window (053c8e1f235d added the mprog query API +
revision; tcx in e420bed02507, netkit in 35dfaad7188c). There has never
been a tcx/netkit BPF_PROG_QUERY userspace that doesn't know about
revision. So for these commands the minimum legitimate struct already
covers offset 56-64 — no old binary can be broken here.

Contrast with cgroup: BPF_PROG_QUERY on cgroup attach types shipped in
2017; revision write-back was bolted on years later (120933984460). That
path has a real population of pre-revision callers.

Fixes: 120933984460 ("bpf: Implement mprog API on top of existing cgroup progs")
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang &lt;yuyanghuang@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260531075600.4058207-2-yuyanghuang@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 21c4b99b27f3f85b89256e81b3e997dec0a460d0 ]

BPF_PROG_QUERY writes back the 'query.revision' field unconditionally to
userspace. If userspace passes a smaller 'bpf_attr' structure (e.g. 40
bytes, which was the layout before the addition of 'query.revision'),
the kernel performs an out-of-bounds write.

Fix this by propagating the user-provided attribute size 'uattr_size'
down to the cgroup query handlers, and conditionally skipping writing
the revision field to userspace when the provided buffer size is
insufficient.

query.revision in bpf_mprog_query is structurally identical to the
cgroup case: a late tail field, written unconditionally.

But the backward-compat hazard is not the same.

The min-historical-size test is per command, and bpf_mprog_query only
serves attach types that were born with revision in the struct:

- tcx_prog_query -&gt; BPF_TCX_INGRESS/EGRESS
- netkit_prog_query -&gt; BPF_NETKIT_PRIMARY/PEER

tcx, netkit, the revision field, and bpf_mprog_query itself all landed in
the same v6.6 merge window (053c8e1f235d added the mprog query API +
revision; tcx in e420bed02507, netkit in 35dfaad7188c). There has never
been a tcx/netkit BPF_PROG_QUERY userspace that doesn't know about
revision. So for these commands the minimum legitimate struct already
covers offset 56-64 — no old binary can be broken here.

Contrast with cgroup: BPF_PROG_QUERY on cgroup attach types shipped in
2017; revision write-back was bolted on years later (120933984460). That
path has a real population of pre-revision callers.

Fixes: 120933984460 ("bpf: Implement mprog API on top of existing cgroup progs")
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang &lt;yuyanghuang@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260531075600.4058207-2-yuyanghuang@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix abuse of kprobe_write_ctx via freplace</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T11:06:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Hwang</name>
<email>leon.hwang@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-31T14:53:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 611fe4b79af72d00d80f2223354284447daafae9 ]

uprobe programs are allowed to modify struct pt_regs.

Since the actual program type of uprobe is KPROBE, it can be abused to
modify struct pt_regs via kprobe+freplace when the kprobe attaches to
kernel functions.

For example,

SEC("?kprobe")
int kprobe(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	return 0;
}

SEC("?freplace")
int freplace_kprobe(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	regs-&gt;di = 0;
	return 0;
}

freplace_kprobe prog will attach to kprobe prog.
kprobe prog will attach to a kernel function.

Without this patch, when the kernel function runs, its first arg will
always be set as 0 via the freplace_kprobe prog.

To fix the abuse of kprobe_write_ctx=true via kprobe+freplace, disallow
attaching freplace programs on kprobe programs with different
kprobe_write_ctx values.

Fixes: 7384893d970e ("bpf: Allow uprobe program to change context registers")
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260331145353.87606-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 611fe4b79af72d00d80f2223354284447daafae9 ]

uprobe programs are allowed to modify struct pt_regs.

Since the actual program type of uprobe is KPROBE, it can be abused to
modify struct pt_regs via kprobe+freplace when the kprobe attaches to
kernel functions.

For example,

SEC("?kprobe")
int kprobe(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	return 0;
}

SEC("?freplace")
int freplace_kprobe(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	regs-&gt;di = 0;
	return 0;
}

freplace_kprobe prog will attach to kprobe prog.
kprobe prog will attach to a kernel function.

Without this patch, when the kernel function runs, its first arg will
always be set as 0 via the freplace_kprobe prog.

To fix the abuse of kprobe_write_ctx=true via kprobe+freplace, disallow
attaching freplace programs on kprobe programs with different
kprobe_write_ctx values.

Fixes: 7384893d970e ("bpf: Allow uprobe program to change context registers")
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260331145353.87606-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Require frozen map for calculating map hash</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T22:59:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KP Singh</name>
<email>kpsingh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-05T07:07:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a2c86aa621c22f2a7e26c654f936d65cfff0aa91 ]

Currently, bpf_map_get_info_by_fd calculates and caches the hash of the
map regardless of the map's frozen state.

This leads to a TOCTOU bug where userspace can call
BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD to cache the hash and then modify the map
contents before freezing.

Therefore, a trusted loader can be tricked into verifying the stale hash
while loading the modified contents.

Fix this by returning -EPERM if the map is not frozen when the hash is
requested. This ensures the hash is only generated for the final,
immutable state of the map.

Fixes: ea2e6467ac36 ("bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD")
Reported-by: Toshi Piazza &lt;toshi.piazza@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260205070755.695776-1-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a2c86aa621c22f2a7e26c654f936d65cfff0aa91 ]

Currently, bpf_map_get_info_by_fd calculates and caches the hash of the
map regardless of the map's frozen state.

This leads to a TOCTOU bug where userspace can call
BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD to cache the hash and then modify the map
contents before freezing.

Therefore, a trusted loader can be tricked into verifying the stale hash
while loading the modified contents.

Fix this by returning -EPERM if the map is not frozen when the hash is
requested. This ensures the hash is only generated for the final,
immutable state of the map.

Fixes: ea2e6467ac36 ("bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD")
Reported-by: Toshi Piazza &lt;toshi.piazza@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260205070755.695776-1-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Limit bpf program signature size</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T22:59:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KP Singh</name>
<email>kpsingh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-05T06:38:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ea1535e28bb3773fc0b3cbd1f3842b808016990c ]

Practical BPF signatures are significantly smaller than
KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE

Allowing larger sizes opens the door for abuse by passing excessive
size values and forcing the kernel into expensive allocation paths (via
kmalloc_large or vmalloc).

Fixes: 349271568303 ("bpf: Implement signature verification for BPF programs")
Reported-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260205063807.690823-1-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ea1535e28bb3773fc0b3cbd1f3842b808016990c ]

Practical BPF signatures are significantly smaller than
KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE

Allowing larger sizes opens the door for abuse by passing excessive
size values and forcing the kernel into expensive allocation paths (via
kmalloc_large or vmalloc).

Fixes: 349271568303 ("bpf: Implement signature verification for BPF programs")
Reported-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260205063807.690823-1-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>bpf: Fix tcx/netkit detach permissions when prog fd isn't given</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T22:59:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guillaume Gonnet</name>
<email>ggonnet.linux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-27T16:02:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ae23bc81ddf7c17b663c4ed1b21e35527b0a7131 ]

This commit fixes a security issue where BPF_PROG_DETACH on tcx or
netkit devices could be executed by any user when no program fd was
provided, bypassing permission checks. The fix adds a capability
check for CAP_NET_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_ADMIN in this case.

Fixes: e420bed02507 ("bpf: Add fd-based tcx multi-prog infra with link support")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Gonnet &lt;ggonnet.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260127160200.10395-1-ggonnet.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ae23bc81ddf7c17b663c4ed1b21e35527b0a7131 ]

This commit fixes a security issue where BPF_PROG_DETACH on tcx or
netkit devices could be executed by any user when no program fd was
provided, bypassing permission checks. The fix adds a capability
check for CAP_NET_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_ADMIN in this case.

Fixes: e420bed02507 ("bpf: Add fd-based tcx multi-prog infra with link support")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Gonnet &lt;ggonnet.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260127160200.10395-1-ggonnet.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix memory access flags in helper prototypes</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T22:59:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zesen Liu</name>
<email>ftyghome@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-20T08:28:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 802eef5afb1865bc5536a5302c068ba2215a1f72 ]

After commit 37cce22dbd51 ("bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type tracking"),
the verifier started relying on the access type flags in helper
function prototypes to perform memory access optimizations.

Currently, several helper functions utilizing ARG_PTR_TO_MEM lack the
corresponding MEM_RDONLY or MEM_WRITE flags. This omission causes the
verifier to incorrectly assume that the buffer contents are unchanged
across the helper call. Consequently, the verifier may optimize away
subsequent reads based on this wrong assumption, leading to correctness
issues.

For bpf_get_stack_proto_raw_tp, the original MEM_RDONLY was incorrect
since the helper writes to the buffer. Change it to ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MEM
which correctly indicates write access to potentially uninitialized memory.

Similar issues were recently addressed for specific helpers in commit
ac44dcc788b9 ("bpf: Fix verifier assumptions of bpf_d_path's output buffer")
and commit 2eb7648558a7 ("bpf: Specify access type of bpf_sysctl_get_name args").

Fix these prototypes by adding the correct memory access flags.

Fixes: 37cce22dbd51 ("bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type tracking")
Co-developed-by: Shuran Liu &lt;electronlsr@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuran Liu &lt;electronlsr@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Peili Gao &lt;gplhust955@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peili Gao &lt;gplhust955@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Haoran Ni &lt;haoran.ni.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Haoran Ni &lt;haoran.ni.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zesen Liu &lt;ftyghome@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260120-helper_proto-v3-1-27b0180b4e77@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 802eef5afb1865bc5536a5302c068ba2215a1f72 ]

After commit 37cce22dbd51 ("bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type tracking"),
the verifier started relying on the access type flags in helper
function prototypes to perform memory access optimizations.

Currently, several helper functions utilizing ARG_PTR_TO_MEM lack the
corresponding MEM_RDONLY or MEM_WRITE flags. This omission causes the
verifier to incorrectly assume that the buffer contents are unchanged
across the helper call. Consequently, the verifier may optimize away
subsequent reads based on this wrong assumption, leading to correctness
issues.

For bpf_get_stack_proto_raw_tp, the original MEM_RDONLY was incorrect
since the helper writes to the buffer. Change it to ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MEM
which correctly indicates write access to potentially uninitialized memory.

Similar issues were recently addressed for specific helpers in commit
ac44dcc788b9 ("bpf: Fix verifier assumptions of bpf_d_path's output buffer")
and commit 2eb7648558a7 ("bpf: Specify access type of bpf_sysctl_get_name args").

Fix these prototypes by adding the correct memory access flags.

Fixes: 37cce22dbd51 ("bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type tracking")
Co-developed-by: Shuran Liu &lt;electronlsr@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuran Liu &lt;electronlsr@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Peili Gao &lt;gplhust955@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peili Gao &lt;gplhust955@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Haoran Ni &lt;haoran.ni.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Haoran Ni &lt;haoran.ni.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zesen Liu &lt;ftyghome@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260120-helper_proto-v3-1-27b0180b4e77@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix exclusive map memory leak</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T13:03:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Adam Davis</name>
<email>eadavis@qq.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-16T14:58:13+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 688b745401ab16e2e1a3b504863f0a45fd345638 ]

When excl_prog_hash is 0 and excl_prog_hash_size is non-zero, the map also
needs to be freed. Otherwise, the map memory will not be reclaimed, just
like the memory leak problem reported by syzbot [1].

syzbot reported:
BUG: memory leak
  backtrace (crc 7b9fb9b4):
    map_create+0x322/0x11e0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1512
    __sys_bpf+0x3556/0x3610 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6131

Fixes: baefdbdf6812 ("bpf: Implement exclusive map creation")
Reported-by: syzbot+cf08c551fecea9fd1320@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=cf08c551fecea9fd1320
Tested-by: syzbot+cf08c551fecea9fd1320@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis &lt;eadavis@qq.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_3F226F882CE56DCC94ACE90EED1ECCFC780A@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 688b745401ab16e2e1a3b504863f0a45fd345638 ]

When excl_prog_hash is 0 and excl_prog_hash_size is non-zero, the map also
needs to be freed. Otherwise, the map memory will not be reclaimed, just
like the memory leak problem reported by syzbot [1].

syzbot reported:
BUG: memory leak
  backtrace (crc 7b9fb9b4):
    map_create+0x322/0x11e0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1512
    __sys_bpf+0x3556/0x3610 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6131

Fixes: baefdbdf6812 ("bpf: Implement exclusive map creation")
Reported-by: syzbot+cf08c551fecea9fd1320@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=cf08c551fecea9fd1320
Tested-by: syzbot+cf08c551fecea9fd1320@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis &lt;eadavis@qq.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_3F226F882CE56DCC94ACE90EED1ECCFC780A@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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