Re: [PATCH net 1/2] bpf: rcu lock must not be held when calling copy_to_user()

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Fri Jan 23 2015 - 05:16:14 EST


On 01/23/2015 02:11 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/memory.c:3732
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 671, name: test_maps
1 lock held by test_maps/671:
#0: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<0000000000264190>] map_lookup_elem+0xe8/0x260
Call Trace:
([<0000000000115b7e>] show_trace+0x12e/0x150)
[<0000000000115c40>] show_stack+0xa0/0x100
[<00000000009b163c>] dump_stack+0x74/0xc8
[<000000000017424a>] ___might_sleep+0x23a/0x248
[<00000000002b58e8>] might_fault+0x70/0xe8
[<0000000000264230>] map_lookup_elem+0x188/0x260
[<0000000000264716>] SyS_bpf+0x20e/0x840

Fix it by allocating temporary buffer to store map element value.

Fixes: db20fd2b0108 ("bpf: add lookup/update/delete/iterate methods to BPF maps")
Reported-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
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