kernel/linux.git/tools/lib/bpf, branch v6.1.186

libbpf: Fix UAF in strset__add_str()

2026-07-24T13:54:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit b23705e6afb6ac4ae6d220dcb35975698667dd76 ] strset_add_str_mem() might reallocate the strset data buffer in order to accommodate the provided string 's'. However, if 's' points to a string already present in the buffer, it becomes dangling after the realloc. This leads to a use-after-free when attempting to memcpy() the string into the new buffer. One scenario that triggers this problematic path is when resolve_btfids attempts to patch kfunc prototypes using existing BTF parameter names: | resolve_btfids: function bpf_list_push_back_impl already exists in BTF | Segmentation fault (core dumped) Compiling resolve_btfids with fsanitize=address generates a detailed report of the UAF: | ================================================================= | ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0x7f4c4a500bd4 | ==1507892==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0x7f4c4a500bd4 at pc 0x55d25155a2a8 bp 0x7ffcef879060 sp 0x7ffcef878818 | READ of size 5 at 0x7f4c4a500bd4 thread T0 | #0 0x55d25155a2a7 in memcpy (tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/resolve_btfids+0xcf2a7) | #1 0x55d2515d708e in strset__add_str tools/lib/bpf/strset.c:162:2 | #2 0x55d2515c730b in btf__add_str tools/lib/bpf/btf.c:2109:8 | #3 0x55d2515c9020 in btf__add_func_param tools/lib/bpf/btf.c:3108:14 | #4 0x55d25159f0b5 in process_kfunc_with_implicit_args tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/main.c:1196:9 | #5 0x55d25159e004 in btf2btf tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/main.c:1229:9 | #6 0x55d25159cee7 in main tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/main.c:1535:6 | #7 0x7f4c78e29f76 in __libc_start_call_main csu/../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58:16 | #8 0x7f4c78e2a026 in __libc_start_main csu/../csu/libc-start.c:360:3 | #9 0x55d2514bb860 in _start (tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/resolve_btfids+0x30860) | | 0x7f4c4a500bd4 is located 13268 bytes inside of 2829000-byte region [0x7f4c4a4fd800,0x7f4c4a7b02c8) | freed by thread T0 here: | #0 0x55d25155b700 in realloc (tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/resolve_btfids+0xd0700) | #1 0x55d2515c426c in libbpf_reallocarray tools/lib/bpf/./libbpf_internal.h:220:9 | #2 0x55d2515c426c in libbpf_add_mem tools/lib/bpf/btf.c:224:13 | | previously allocated by thread T0 here: | #0 0x55d25155b2e3 in malloc (tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/resolve_btfids+0xd02e3) | #1 0x55d2515d6e7d in strset__new tools/lib/bpf/strset.c:58:20 While resolve_btfids could be refactored to avoid this call path, let's instead fix this issue at the source in strset__add_str() and avoid similar scenarios. Let's check if set->strs_data was reallocated and whether 's' points to an internal string within the old strset buffer. In such case, 's' is reconstructed to point to the new buffer. While already here, also fix strset__find_str() which suffers from the same problem by factoring out the common operations into a new helper function strset_str_append(). Fixes: 90d76d3ececc ("libbpf: Extract internal set-of-strings datastructure APIs") Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko Suggested-by: Mykyta Yatsenko Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260523162722.2718940-1-cmllamas@google.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

libbpf: Harden parse_vma_segs() path parsing

2026-07-24T13:54:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit fee9a38174f4c6454fb1fbaf2b9b5a1cca9070d0 ] parse_vma_segs() in tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c parses /proc//maps with two widthless scansets, "%s" into mode[16] and "%[^\n]" into line[4096]. A VMA name in maps is not limited to that local buffer; a deeply nested backing path can produce a maps record long enough to overflow the stack buffer. Bound both scansets to the declared buffer sizes ("%15s" for mode[16] and "%4095[^\n]" for line[4096]) and drain any residue past line[4094] with "%*[^\n]" before the trailing "\n". Without the drain, the residue of an over-long record would stay in the stream and break the next "%zx-%zx" parse, so the loop would exit early and silently skip later maps records. Also stop using sscanf(..., "%s") to peel the /proc//root prefix from lib_path. Parse the pid and prefix length with "%n", check for the following slash, and copy the remainder with libbpf_strlcpy(). That removes a second unbounded stack write and preserves paths containing spaces. Fixes: 74cc6311cec9 ("libbpf: Add USDT notes parsing and resolution logic") Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260522201353.1454653-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

libbpf: Report error when a negative kprobe offset is specified

2026-07-24T13:54:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit ad35d8018669fd2eea76e3f74eb050fd3d2fb690 ] In attach_kprobe(), the parsing logic uses sscanf() to extract the target function name and offset from the section definition. Currently, if a user specifies a negative offset (e.g., SEC("kprobe/func+-100")), the input is not explicitly caught and reported as an error. This commit updates the logic to explicitly notify the user when a negative integer is provided. To facilitate this check, the offset variable is changed from unsigned long to long so that sscanf() can accurately capture a negative input for evaluation. If a negative offset is detected, the loader will now print an informative warning stating that the offset must be non-negative, and return -EINVAL. Additionally, free(func) is called in this new error path to prevent a memory leak, as the function name string is dynamically allocated by sscanf(). Fixes: e3f9bc35ea7e9 ("libbpf: Allow decimal offset for kprobes") Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260419030944.1423642-1-atomlin@atomlin.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bpf: reject negative CO-RE accessor indices in bpf_core_parse_spec()

2026-06-01T15:39:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1c22483a2c4bbf747787f328392ca3e68619c4dc ] CO-RE accessor strings are colon-separated indices that describe a path from a root BTF type to a target field, e.g. "0:1:2" walks through nested struct members. bpf_core_parse_spec() parses each component with sscanf("%d"), so negative values like -1 are silently accepted. The subsequent bounds checks (access_idx >= btf_vlen(t)) only guard the upper bound and always pass for negative values because C integer promotion converts the __u16 btf_vlen result to int, making the comparison (int)(-1) >= (int)(N) false for any positive N. When -1 reaches btf_member_bit_offset() it gets cast to u32 0xffffffff, producing an out-of-bounds read far past the members array. A crafted BPF program with a negative CO-RE accessor on any struct that exists in vmlinux BTF (e.g. task_struct) crashes the kernel deterministically during BPF_PROG_LOAD on any system with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y (default on major distributions). The bug is reachable with CAP_BPF: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffed11818b6626 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 85 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.0.0-rc6 #18 PREEMPT(full) RIP: 0010:bpf_core_parse_spec (tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c:354) RAX: 00000000ffffffff Call Trace: bpf_core_calc_relo_insn (tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c:1321) bpf_core_apply (kernel/bpf/btf.c:9507) check_core_relo (kernel/bpf/verifier.c:19475) bpf_check (kernel/bpf/verifier.c:26031) bpf_prog_load (kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3089) __sys_bpf (kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6228) CO-RE accessor indices are inherently non-negative (struct member index, array element index, or enumerator index), so reject them immediately after parsing. Fixes: ddc7c3042614 ("libbpf: implement BPF CO-RE offset relocation algorithm") Reported-by: Xiang Mei Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis Acked-by: Paul Chaignon Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260404161221.961828-2-bestswngs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bpftool: Fix truncated netlink dumps

2026-03-04T12:20:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3b39d73cc3379360a33eb583b17f21fe55e1288e ] Netlink requires that the recv buffer used during dumps is at least min(PAGE_SIZE, 8k) (see the man page). Otherwise the messages will get truncated. Make sure bpftool follows this requirement, avoid missing information on systems with large pages. Acked-by: Quentin Monnet Fixes: 7084566a236f ("tools/bpftool: Remove libbpf_internal.h usage in bpftool") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260217194150.734701-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

libbpf: Fix OOB read in btf_dump_get_bitfield_value

2026-03-04T12:19:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5714ca8cba5ed736f3733663c446cbee63a10a64 ] When dumping bitfield data, btf_dump_get_bitfield_value() reads data based on the underlying type's size (t->size). However, it does not verify that the provided data buffer (data_sz) is large enough to contain these bytes. If btf_dump__dump_type_data() is called with a buffer smaller than the type's size, this leads to an out-of-bounds read. This was confirmed by AddressSanitizer in the linked issue. Fix this by ensuring we do not read past the provided data_sz limit. Fixes: a1d3cc3c5eca ("libbpf: Avoid use of __int128 in typed dump display") Reported-by: Harrison Green Suggested-by: Alan Maguire Signed-off-by: Varun R Mallya Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260106233527.163487-1-varunrmallya@gmail.com Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/928 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

libbpf: Fix powerpc's stack register definition in bpf_tracing.h

2025-12-06T21:12:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7221b9caf84b3294688228a19273d74ea19a2ee4 ] retsnoop's build on powerpc (ppc64le) architecture ([0]) failed due to wrong definition of PT_REGS_SP() macro. Looking at powerpc's implementation of stack unwinding in perf_callchain_user_64() clearly shows that stack pointer register is gpr[1]. Fix libbpf's definition of __PT_SP_REG for powerpc to fix all this. [0] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/work/tasks/1544/137921544/build.log Fixes: 138d6153a139 ("samples/bpf: Enable powerpc support") Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Reviewed-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251020203643.989467-1-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

libbpf: Fix reuse of DEVMAP

2025-10-15T09:56:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6c6b4146deb12d20f42490d5013f2043df942161 ] Previously, re-using pinned DEVMAP maps would always fail, because get_map_info on a DEVMAP always returns flags with BPF_F_RDONLY_PROG set, but BPF_F_RDONLY_PROG being set on a map during creation is invalid. Thus, ignore the BPF_F_RDONLY_PROG flag in the flags returned from get_map_info when checking for compatibility with an existing DEVMAP. The same problem is handled in a third-party ebpf library: - https://github.com/cilium/ebpf/issues/925 - https://github.com/cilium/ebpf/pull/930 Fixes: 0cdbb4b09a06 ("devmap: Allow map lookups from eBPF") Signed-off-by: Yureka Lilian Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250814180113.1245565-3-yuka@yuka.dev Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

libbpf: Fix null pointer dereference in btf_dump__free on allocation failure

2025-07-06T08:58:00+00:00

[ Upstream commit aa485e8789d56a4573f7c8d000a182b749eaa64d ] When btf_dump__new() fails to allocate memory for the internal hashmap (btf_dump->type_names), it returns an error code. However, the cleanup function btf_dump__free() does not check if btf_dump->type_names is NULL before attempting to free it. This leads to a null pointer dereference when btf_dump__free() is called on a btf_dump object. Fixes: 351131b51c7a ("libbpf: add btf_dump API for BTF-to-C conversion") Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250618011933.11423-1-chenyuan_fl@163.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

libbpf: Add identical pointer detection to btf_dedup_is_equiv()

2025-06-27T10:07:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8e64c387c942229c551d0f23de4d9993d3a2acb6 ] Recently as a side-effect of commit ac053946f5c4 ("compiler.h: introduce TYPEOF_UNQUAL() macro") issues were observed in deduplication between modules and kernel BTF such that a large number of kernel types were not deduplicated so were found in module BTF (task_struct, bpf_prog etc). The root cause appeared to be a failure to dedup struct types, specifically those with members that were pointers with __percpu annotations. The issue in dedup is at the point that we are deduplicating structures, we have not yet deduplicated reference types like pointers. If multiple copies of a pointer point at the same (deduplicated) integer as in this case, we do not see them as identical. Special handling already exists to deal with structures and arrays, so add pointer handling here too. Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250429161042.2069678-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin