bpf, sockmap: RCU dereferenced psock may be used outside RCU block
If an ingress verdict program specifies message sizes greater than skb->len and there is an ENOMEM error due to memory pressure we may call the rcv_msg handler outside the strp_data_ready() caller context. This is because on an ENOMEM error the strparser will retry from a workqueue. The caller currently protects the use of psock by calling the strp_data_ready() inside a rcu_read_lock/unlock block. But, in above workqueue error case the psock is accessed outside the read_lock/unlock block of the caller. So instead of using psock directly we must do a look up against the sk again to ensure the psock is available. There is an an ugly piece here where we must handle the case where we paused the strp and removed the psock. On psock removal we first pause the strparser and then remove the psock. If the strparser is paused while an skb is scheduled on the workqueue the skb will be dropped on the flow and kfree_skb() is called. If the workqueue manages to get called before we pause the strparser but runs the rcvmsg callback after the psock is removed we will hit the unlikely case where we run the sockmap rcvmsg handler but do not have a psock. For now we will follow strparser logic and drop the skb on the floor with skb_kfree(). This is ugly because the data is dropped. To date this has not caused problems in practice because either the application controlling the sockmap is coordinating with the datapath so that skbs are "flushed" before removal or we simply wait for the sock to be closed before removing it. This patch fixes the describe RCU bug and dropping the skb doesn't make things worse. Future patches will improve this by allowing the normal case where skbs are not merged to skip the strparser altogether. In practice many (most?) use cases have no need to merge skbs so its both a code complexity hit as seen above and a performance issue. For example, in the Cilium case we always set the strparser up to return sbks 1:1 without any merging and have avoided above issues. Fixes: e91de6af ("bpf: Fix running sk_skb program types with ktls") Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/159312679888.18340.15248924071966273998.stgit@john-XPS-13-9370
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