bpf: support deferring bpf_link dealloc to after RCU grace period
BPF link for some program types is passed as a "context" which can be
used by those BPF programs to look up additional information. E.g., for
multi-kprobes and multi-uprobes, link is used to fetch BPF cookie values.
Because of this runtime dependency, when bpf_link refcnt drops to zero
there could still be active BPF programs running accessing link data.
This patch adds generic support to defer bpf_link dealloc callback to
after RCU GP, if requested. This is done by exposing two different
deallocation callbacks, one synchronous and one deferred. If deferred
one is provided, bpf_link_free() will schedule dealloc_deferred()
callback to happen after RCU GP.
BPF is using two flavors of RCU: "classic" non-sleepable one and RCU
tasks trace one. The latter is used when sleepable BPF programs are
used. bpf_link_free() accommodates that by checking underlying BPF
program's sleepable flag, and goes either through normal RCU GP only for
non-sleepable, or through RCU tasks trace GP *and* then normal RCU GP
(taking into account rcu_trace_implies_rcu_gp() optimization), if BPF
program is sleepable.
We use this for multi-kprobe and multi-uprobe links, which dereference
link during program run. We also preventively switch raw_tp link to use
deferred dealloc callback, as upcoming changes in bpf-next tree expose
raw_tp link data (specifically, cookie value) to BPF program at runtime
as well.
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Ubuntu USN |
USN-6893-1 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6893-2 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6893-3 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6918-1 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-11T20:12:39.622Z
Reserved: 2024-05-17T13:50:33.107Z
Link: CVE-2024-35860
Updated: 2024-08-02T03:21:48.532Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2024-05-19T09:15:07.603
Modified: 2025-09-26T16:03:27.003
Link: CVE-2024-35860
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Updated: 2025-07-12T15:42:27Z
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