bpf: Reject bpf_obj_drop() from tracing progs

bpf_obj_drop() runs bpf_obj_free_fields() synchronously for
program-allocated objects. When such an object contains NMI unsafe
fields, tracing programs that can run from arbitrary instrumented
context can reach that destruction from unsafe contexts, including NMI.

NMI is likely one instance of this problem, and other instances would
include possible unsafe reentrancy. Deferring bpf_obj_drop() is not
appealing either: it would add delayed-free machinery to a release
operation that otherwise has straightforward synchronous ownership
semantics.

Reject bpf_obj_drop() and bpf_percpu_obj_drop() from tracing programs
that may run from unsafe contexts unless every field in the object's BTF
record is explicitly NMI safe. Do not reject sleepable
BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING programs, since they are not the arbitrary/NMI
contexts that motivate the restriction.

Note that while bpf_rb_root and bpf_list_head would be NMI safe on their
own to free, the objects recursively held by them may not be; be
conservative and just mark them as not NMI safe for now.

Use a whitelist for the NMI-safe field set instead of listing only known
NMI unsafe fields. Locks, async fields, unreferenced kptrs, and
refcounts are known to be NMI safe because their destruction is either a
no-op, simple state reset, or async cancellation. Referenced kptrs,
percpu referenced kptrs, uptrs, graph roots, graph nodes, and any future
field type are rejected until audited for arbitrary tracing and NMI
contexts. This is less susceptible to future changes in fields that were
previously safe by exclusion, and to new fields being added without
updating this check.

Convert the existing recursive local-object drop success case to a
syscall program in the same commit, since this verifier change makes the
old tracing program form invalid. The test still exercises
bpf_obj_drop() releasing a referenced task kptr from a safe program
type.

Fixes: ac9f06050a35 ("bpf: Introduce bpf_obj_drop")
Signed-off-by: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260609202548.3571690-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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