CVE-2024-35860
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35860
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-35860.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-35860
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2024-05-19T08:34:19Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-09T08:27:36.578244Z
- Summary
- bpf: support deferring bpf_link dealloc to after RCU grace period
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: support deferring bpf_link dealloc to after RCU grace period
BPF link for some program types is passed as a "context" which can be used by those BPF programs to look up additional information. E.g., for multi-kprobes and multi-uprobes, link is used to fetch BPF cookie values.
Because of this runtime dependency, when bpf_link refcnt drops to zero there could still be active BPF programs running accessing link data.
This patch adds generic support to defer bpflink dealloc callback to after RCU GP, if requested. This is done by exposing two different deallocation callbacks, one synchronous and one deferred. If deferred one is provided, bpflinkfree() will schedule deallocdeferred() callback to happen after RCU GP.
BPF is using two flavors of RCU: "classic" non-sleepable one and RCU tasks trace one. The latter is used when sleepable BPF programs are used. bpflinkfree() accommodates that by checking underlying BPF program's sleepable flag, and goes either through normal RCU GP only for non-sleepable, or through RCU tasks trace GP and then normal RCU GP (taking into account rcutraceimpliesrcugp() optimization), if BPF program is sleepable.
We use this for multi-kprobe and multi-uprobe links, which dereference link during program run. We also preventively switch rawtp link to use deferred dealloc callback, as upcoming changes in bpf-next tree expose rawtp link data (specifically, cookie value) to BPF program at runtime as well.
- References
Affected packages
Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- Events
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Introduced0dcac272540613d41c05e89679e4ddb978b612f1Fixed876941f533e7b47fc69977fc4551c02f2d18af97
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- Events
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Introduced0dcac272540613d41c05e89679e4ddb978b612f1Fixed5d8d447777564b35f67000e7838e7ccb64d525c8
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- Events
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Introduced0dcac272540613d41c05e89679e4ddb978b612f1Fixed1a80dbcb2dbaf6e4c216e62e30fa7d3daa8001ce