CVE: CVE-2023-53857
Published: 2025-12-09
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: bpf_sk_storage: Fix invalid wait context lockdep report

'./test_progs -t test_local_storage' reported a splat:

[   27.137569] =============================
[   27.138122] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
[   27.138650] 6.5.0-03980-gd11ae1b16b0a #247 Tainted: G           O
[   27.139542] -----------------------------
[   27.140106] test_progs/1729 is trying to lock:
[   27.140713] ffff8883ef047b88 (stock_lock){-.-.}-{3:3}, at: local_lock_acquire+0x9/0x130
[   27.141834] other info that might help us debug this:
[   27.142437] context-{5:5}
[   27.142856] 2 locks held by test_progs/1729:
[   27.143352]  #0: ffffffff84bcd9c0 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire+0x4/0x40
[   27.144492]  #1: ffff888107deb2c0 (&storage->lock){..-.}-{2:2}, at: bpf_local_storage_update+0x39e/0x8e0
[   27.145855] stack backtrace:
[   27.146274] CPU: 0 PID: 1729 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G           O       6.5.0-03980-gd11ae1b16b0a #247
[   27.147550] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[   27.149127] Call Trace:
[   27.149490]  <TASK>
[   27.149867]  dump_stack_lvl+0x130/0x1d0
[   27.152609]  dump_stack+0x14/0x20
[   27.153131]  __lock_acquire+0x1657/0x2220
[   27.153677]  lock_acquire+0x1b8/0x510
[   27.157908]  local_lock_acquire+0x29/0x130
[   27.159048]  obj_cgroup_charge+0xf4/0x3c0
[   27.160794]  slab_pre_alloc_hook+0x28e/0x2b0
[   27.161931]  __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x51/0x210
[   27.163557]  __kmalloc+0xaa/0x210
[   27.164593]  bpf_map_kzalloc+0xbc/0x170
[   27.165147]  bpf_selem_alloc+0x130/0x510
[   27.166295]  bpf_local_storage_update+0x5aa/0x8e0
[   27.167042]  bpf_fd_sk_storage_update_elem+0xdb/0x1a0
[   27.169199]  bpf_map_update_value+0x415/0x4f0
[   27.169871]  map_update_elem+0x413/0x550
[   27.170330]  __sys_bpf+0x5e9/0x640
[   27.174065]  __x64_sys_bpf+0x80/0x90
[   27.174568]  do_syscall_64+0x48/0xa0
[   27.175201]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
[   27.175932] RIP: 0033:0x7effb40e41ad
[   27.176357] Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d8
[   27.179028] RSP: 002b:00007ffe64c21fc8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: [PII_REDACTED]
[   27.180088] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe64c22768 RCX: 00007effb40e41ad
[   27.181082] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: 00007ffe64c22008 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
[   27.182030] RBP: 00007ffe64c21ff0 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: 00007ffe64c22788
[   27.183038] R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
[   27.184006] R13: 00007ffe64c22788 R14: 00007effb42a1000 R15: [PII_REDACTED]
[   27.184958]  </TASK>

It complains about acquiring a local_lock while holding a raw_spin_lock.
It means it should not allocate memory while holding a raw_spin_lock
since it is not safe for RT.

raw_spin_lock is needed because bpf_local_storage supports tracing
context. In particular for task local storage, it is easy to
get a "current" task PTR_TO_BTF_ID in tracing bpf prog.
However, task (and cgroup) local storage has already been moved to
bpf mem allocator which can be used after raw_spin_lock.

The splat is for the sk storage. For sk (and inode) storage,
it has not been moved to bpf mem allocator. Using raw_spin_lock or not,
kzalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) could theoretically be unsafe in tracing context.
However, the local storage helper requires a verifier accepted
sk pointer (PTR_TO_BTF_ID), it is hypothetical if that (mean running
a bpf prog in a kzalloc unsafe context and also able to hold a verifier
accepted sk pointer) could happen.

This patch avoids kzalloc after raw_spin_lock to silent the splat.
There is an existing kzalloc before the raw_spin_lock. At that point,
a kzalloc is very likely required because a lookup has just been done
before. Thus, this patch always does the kzalloc before acq
---truncated---
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/300415caa373a07782fcbc2f8d9429bc2dc27a47; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a96a44aba556c42b432929d37d60158aca21ad4c