[PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Fix stream capacity leak and spurious -ENOSPC in bpf_stream_stage_commit
From: Khawar Ahemad
Date: Tue Aug 25 2026 - 07:40:03 EST
bpf_stream_stage_commit() accounts the staged string length against
the stream capacity via bpf_stream_consume_capacity() before
detaching the queued elements with llist_del_all().
If no elements are returned by llist_del_all() (for instance, when
the staging list was empty or failed to allocate elements), the
function returns early without releasing the consumed capacity.
Because no elements are queued into stream->log, no reader will ever
pop or release this capacity, leading to a permanent capacity leak.
Furthermore, if ss->len is 0, bpf_stream_consume_capacity() is invoked
needlessly and fails with -ENOSPC if the stream is currently at
capacity, spuriously rejecting a zero-byte commit.
Fix both issues by:
1. Returning early if ss->len is 0.
2. Rolling back the consumed capacity with bpf_stream_release_capacity()
if llist_del_all() returns NULL.
Fixes: 5ab154f1463a ("bpf: Introduce BPF standard streams")
Signed-off-by: Khawar Ahemad <ahemadkhawar123@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/bpf/stream.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/stream.c b/kernel/bpf/stream.c
index 7a5c3ac867..3ad58c8284 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/stream.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/stream.c
@@ -350,15 +350,21 @@ int bpf_stream_stage_commit(struct bpf_stream_stage *ss, struct bpf_prog *prog,
if (!stream)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (!ss->len)
+ return 0;
+
ret = bpf_stream_consume_capacity(stream, ss->len);
if (ret)
return ret;
list = llist_del_all(&ss->log);
- head = tail = list;
-
- if (!list)
+ if (!list) {
+ bpf_stream_release_capacity(stream, ss->len);
return 0;
+ }
+
+ head = list;
+ tail = list;
while (llist_next(list)) {
tail = llist_next(list);
list = tail;
--
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)