[PATCH v2] bpf: hashtab: fix 32-bit overflow in memory usage calculation

From: Alexei Safin

Date: Fri Nov 07 2025 - 05:10:35 EST


The intermediate product value_size * num_possible_cpus() is evaluated
in 32-bit arithmetic and only then promoted to 64 bits. On systems with
large value_size and many possible CPUs this can overflow and lead to
an underestimated memory usage.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 304849a27b34 ("bpf: hashtab memory usage")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Suggested-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Safin <a.safin@xxxxxxx>
---
v2: Promote value_size to u64 at declaration to avoid 32-bit overflow
in all arithmetic using this variable (suggested by Yafang Shao)
kernel/bpf/hashtab.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
index 570e2f723144..1f0add26ba3f 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
@@ -2252,7 +2252,7 @@ static long bpf_for_each_hash_elem(struct bpf_map *map, bpf_callback_t callback_
static u64 htab_map_mem_usage(const struct bpf_map *map)
{
struct bpf_htab *htab = container_of(map, struct bpf_htab, map);
- u32 value_size = round_up(htab->map.value_size, 8);
+ u64 value_size = round_up(htab->map.value_size, 8);
bool prealloc = htab_is_prealloc(htab);
bool percpu = htab_is_percpu(htab);
bool lru = htab_is_lru(htab);
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)