[PATCH v3] bpf, sockmap: keep sk_msg copy state in sync

From: Zhang Cen

Date: Wed May 20 2026 - 06:34:35 EST


SK_MSG uses msg->sg.copy as per-scatterlist-entry provenance. Entries
with this bit set are copied before data/data_end are exposed to SK_MSG
BPF programs for direct packet access.

bpf_msg_pull_data(), bpf_msg_push_data(), and bpf_msg_pop_data()
rewrite the sk_msg scatterlist ring by collapsing, splitting, and
shifting entries. These operations move msg->sg.data[] entries, but the
parallel copy bitmap can be left behind on the old slot. A copied entry
can then return to msg->sg.start with its copy bit clear and be exposed
as directly writable packet data.

This corruption path requires an attached SK_MSG BPF program that calls
the mutating helpers; ordinary sockmap/TLS traffic that never runs
push/pop/pull helper sequences is not affected.

Keep msg->sg.copy synchronized with scatterlist entry moves, preserve
the copy bit when an entry is split, clear it when a helper replaces an
entry with a private page, and clear slots vacated by pull-data
compaction.

Fixes: 015632bb30da ("bpf: sk_msg program helper bpf_sk_msg_pull_data")
Fixes: 6fff607e2f14 ("bpf: sk_msg program helper bpf_msg_push_data")
Fixes: 7246d8ed4dcc ("bpf: helper to pop data from messages")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Co-developed-by: Han Guidong <2045gemini@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Han Guidong <2045gemini@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Cen <rollkingzzc@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v3:
- Refactor copy-bit helpers per John Fastabend's review: encapsulate scatterlist element moves alongside their copy state into a unified helper, and streamline bit-clearing operations.
- Clarify in commit log that only programs using push/pop/pull are affected.
- Note: The additional edge cases reported by the Sashiko-bot bot and the addition of BPF selftests will be addressed in a separate follow-up patch series to expedite this core fix.

v2:
Address Sashiko-bot's feedback by clearing msg->sg.copy for every entry consumed by bpf_msg_pull_data() before compacting the scatterlist ring, preventing stale copy bits on collapsed tail entries.

v1:
While researching recent page cache bugs, we discovered this bug.
We confirmed it allows overwriting the page cache of read-only files
via splice(). We haven't attempted to write an exploit, but the
corruption primitive is verified. PoC available upon request.
Recommend fixing ASAP.
---

net/core/filter.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index 78b548158fb05..1be8fc750a1a1 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -2650,6 +2650,38 @@ static void sk_msg_reset_curr(struct sk_msg *msg)
}
}

+static bool sk_msg_elem_is_copy(const struct sk_msg *msg, u32 i)
+{
+ return test_bit(i, msg->sg.copy);
+}
+
+static void sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(struct sk_msg *msg, u32 i)
+{
+ __clear_bit(i, msg->sg.copy);
+}
+
+static void sk_msg_set_elem_copy(struct sk_msg *msg, u32 i)
+{
+ __set_bit(i, msg->sg.copy);
+}
+
+static void sk_msg_clear_copy_range(struct sk_msg *msg, u32 start, u32 end)
+{
+ while (start != end) {
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, start);
+ sk_msg_iter_var_next(start);
+ }
+}
+
+static void sk_msg_sg_move(struct sk_msg *msg, u32 dst, u32 src)
+{
+ msg->sg.data[dst] = msg->sg.data[src];
+ if (sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, src))
+ sk_msg_set_elem_copy(msg, dst);
+ else
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, dst);
+}
+
static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_msg_cork_bytes_proto = {
.func = bpf_msg_cork_bytes,
.gpl_only = false,
@@ -2688,7 +2720,7 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_pull_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
* account for the headroom.
*/
bytes_sg_total = start - offset + bytes;
- if (!test_bit(i, msg->sg.copy) && bytes_sg_total <= len)
+ if (!sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, i) && bytes_sg_total <= len)
goto out;

/* At this point we need to linearize multiple scatterlist
@@ -2734,6 +2766,7 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_pull_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
} while (i != last_sge);

sg_set_page(&msg->sg.data[first_sge], page, copy, 0);
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, first_sge);

/* To repair sg ring we need to shift entries. If we only
* had a single entry though we can just replace it and
@@ -2743,8 +2776,14 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_pull_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
shift = last_sge > first_sge ?
last_sge - first_sge - 1 :
NR_MSG_FRAG_IDS - first_sge + last_sge - 1;
- if (!shift)
+ if (!shift) {
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, msg->sg.end);
goto out;
+ }
+
+ i = first_sge;
+ sk_msg_iter_var_next(i);
+ sk_msg_clear_copy_range(msg, i, last_sge);

i = first_sge;
sk_msg_iter_var_next(i);
@@ -2758,16 +2797,18 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_pull_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
if (move_from == msg->sg.end)
break;

- msg->sg.data[i] = msg->sg.data[move_from];
+ sk_msg_sg_move(msg, i, move_from);
msg->sg.data[move_from].length = 0;
msg->sg.data[move_from].page_link = 0;
msg->sg.data[move_from].offset = 0;
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, move_from);
sk_msg_iter_var_next(i);
} while (1);

msg->sg.end = msg->sg.end - shift > msg->sg.end ?
msg->sg.end - shift + NR_MSG_FRAG_IDS :
msg->sg.end - shift;
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, msg->sg.end);
out:
sk_msg_reset_curr(msg);
msg->data = sg_virt(&msg->sg.data[first_sge]) + start - offset;
@@ -2790,6 +2831,8 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_push_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
{
struct scatterlist sge, nsge, nnsge, rsge = {0}, *psge;
u32 new, i = 0, l = 0, space, copy = 0, offset = 0;
+ bool sge_copy = false, nsge_copy = false, nnsge_copy = false;
+ bool rsge_copy = false;
u8 *raw, *to, *from;
struct page *page;

@@ -2862,6 +2905,7 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_push_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
sk_msg_iter_var_prev(i);
psge = sk_msg_elem(msg, i);
rsge = sk_msg_elem_cpy(msg, i);
+ rsge_copy = sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, i);

psge->length = start - offset;
rsge.length -= psge->length;
@@ -2887,23 +2931,34 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_push_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
/* Shift one or two slots as needed */
sge = sk_msg_elem_cpy(msg, new);
sg_unmark_end(&sge);
+ sge_copy = sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, new);

nsge = sk_msg_elem_cpy(msg, i);
+ nsge_copy = sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, i);
if (rsge.length) {
sk_msg_iter_var_next(i);
nnsge = sk_msg_elem_cpy(msg, i);
+ nnsge_copy = sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, i);
sk_msg_iter_next(msg, end);
}

while (i != msg->sg.end) {
msg->sg.data[i] = sge;
+ if (sge_copy)
+ sk_msg_set_elem_copy(msg, i);
+ else
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, i);
sge = nsge;
+ sge_copy = nsge_copy;
sk_msg_iter_var_next(i);
if (rsge.length) {
nsge = nnsge;
+ nsge_copy = nnsge_copy;
nnsge = sk_msg_elem_cpy(msg, i);
+ nnsge_copy = sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, i);
} else {
nsge = sk_msg_elem_cpy(msg, i);
+ nsge_copy = sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, i);
}
}

@@ -2911,13 +2966,18 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_push_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
/* Place newly allocated data buffer */
sk_mem_charge(msg->sk, len);
msg->sg.size += len;
- __clear_bit(new, msg->sg.copy);
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, new);
sg_set_page(&msg->sg.data[new], page, len + copy, 0);
if (rsge.length) {
get_page(sg_page(&rsge));
sk_msg_iter_var_next(new);
msg->sg.data[new] = rsge;
+ if (rsge_copy)
+ sk_msg_set_elem_copy(msg, new);
+ else
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, new);
}
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, msg->sg.end);

sk_msg_reset_curr(msg);
sk_msg_compute_data_pointers(msg);
@@ -2943,27 +3003,38 @@ static void sk_msg_shift_left(struct sk_msg *msg, int i)
do {
prev = i;
sk_msg_iter_var_next(i);
- msg->sg.data[prev] = msg->sg.data[i];
+ sk_msg_sg_move(msg, prev, i);
} while (i != msg->sg.end);

sk_msg_iter_prev(msg, end);
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, msg->sg.end);
}

static void sk_msg_shift_right(struct sk_msg *msg, int i)
{
struct scatterlist tmp, sge;
+ bool tmp_copy, sge_copy;

sk_msg_iter_next(msg, end);
sge = sk_msg_elem_cpy(msg, i);
+ sge_copy = sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, i);
sk_msg_iter_var_next(i);
tmp = sk_msg_elem_cpy(msg, i);
+ tmp_copy = sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, i);

while (i != msg->sg.end) {
msg->sg.data[i] = sge;
+ if (sge_copy)
+ sk_msg_set_elem_copy(msg, i);
+ else
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, i);
sk_msg_iter_var_next(i);
sge = tmp;
+ sge_copy = tmp_copy;
tmp = sk_msg_elem_cpy(msg, i);
+ tmp_copy = sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, i);
}
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, msg->sg.end);
}

BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_pop_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
@@ -3020,8 +3091,10 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_pop_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
*/
if (start != offset) {
struct scatterlist *nsge, *sge = sk_msg_elem(msg, i);
+ u32 sge_idx = i;
int a = start - offset;
int b = sge->length - pop - a;
+ bool sge_copy = sk_msg_elem_is_copy(msg, sge_idx);

sk_msg_iter_var_next(i);

@@ -3034,6 +3107,10 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_pop_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
sg_set_page(nsge,
sg_page(sge),
b, sge->offset + pop + a);
+ if (sge_copy)
+ sk_msg_set_elem_copy(msg, i);
+ else
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, i);
} else {
struct page *page, *orig;
u8 *to, *from;
@@ -3050,6 +3127,7 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_msg_pop_data, struct sk_msg *, msg, u32, start,
memcpy(to, from, a);
memcpy(to + a, from + a + pop, b);
sg_set_page(sge, page, a + b, 0);
+ sk_msg_clear_elem_copy(msg, sge_idx);
put_page(orig);
}
pop = 0;
--
2.43.0