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bpf: Fix deadlock when freeing cgroup storage

Published Mar 12, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix deadlock when freeing cgroup storage

The following commit
bc235cdb423a ("bpf: Prevent deadlock from recursive bpf_task_storage_[get|delete]")
first introduced deadlock prevention for fentry/fexit programs attaching
on bpf_task_storage helpers. That commit also employed the logic in map
free path in its v6 version.

Later bpf_cgrp_storage was first introduced in
c4bcfb38a95e ("bpf: Implement cgroup storage available to non-cgroup-attached bpf progs")
which faces the same issue as bpf_task_storage, instead of its busy
counter, NULL was passed to bpf_local_storage_map_free() which opened
a window to cause deadlock:

<TASK>
(acquiring local_storage->lock)
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3d/0x50
bpf_local_storage_update+0xd1/0x460
bpf_cgrp_storage_get+0x109/0x130
bpf_prog_a4d4a370ba857314_cgrp_ptr+0x139/0x170
? __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x16/0x80
bpf_trampoline_6442485186+0x43/0xa4
cgroup_storage_ptr+0x9/0x20
(holding local_storage->lock)
bpf_selem_unlink_storage_nolock.constprop.0+0x135/0x160
bpf_selem_unlink_storage+0x6f/0x110
bpf_local_storage_map_free+0xa2/0x110
bpf_map_free_deferred+0x5b/0x90
process_one_work+0x17c/0x390
worker_thread+0x251/0x360
kthread+0xd2/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>

Progs:
- A: SEC("fentry/cgroup_storage_ptr")
- cgid (BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH)
Record the id of the cgroup the current task belonging
to in this hash map, using the address of the cgroup
as the map key.
- cgrpa (BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGRP_STORAGE)
If current task is a kworker, lookup the above hash
map using function parameter @owner as the key to get
its corresponding cgroup id which is then used to get
a trusted pointer to the cgroup through
bpf_cgroup_from_id(). This trusted pointer can then
be passed to bpf_cgrp_storage_get() to finally trigger
the deadlock issue.
- B: SEC("tp_btf/sys_enter")
- cgrpb (BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGRP_STORAGE)
The only purpose of this prog is to fill Prog A's
hash map by calling bpf_cgrp_storage_get() for as
many userspace tasks as possible.

Steps to reproduce:
- Run A;
- while (true) { Run B; Destroy B; }

Fix this issue by passing its busy counter to the free procedure so
it can be properly incremented before storage/smap locking.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.2 6.6.80

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.12.17-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.17-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-78.78 USN-7703-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1035.37 USN-7703-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1034.39 USN-7737-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-nvidia 6.8.0-1022.23 USN-7737-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1036.38 USN-7703-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.11 +1 6.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1 USN-7521-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1032.36 USN-7703-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1019.21 USN-7703-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1 USN-7521-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1033.33 USN-7703-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-intel +4 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-78.78.1 USN-7703-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-1014.15~24.04.1 USN-7521-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1035.38 USN-7703-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.11 6.11.0-1010.10 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1035.38.1 USN-7703-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1009.9 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.11 6.11.0-1022.22 USN-7521-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1032.33 USN-7703-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1035.39 USN-7703-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1017.18 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1035.37~22.04.1 USN-7703-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1034.39~22.04.1 USN-7737-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1036.38~22.04.1 USN-7703-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 +1 6.8.0-78.78~22.04.1 USN-7703-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1033.33~22.04.1 USN-7703-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-78.78.1~22.04.1 USN-7703-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1035.38~22.04.1 USN-7703-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1032.33~22.04.1 USN-7703-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2028.29 USN-7719-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1030.31 USN-7703-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1030.31~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-78.78+fips1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 10 rv +76 6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1 RHSA-2025:20095
RHEL 9 rv +75 5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7 RHSA-2025:20518

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 10 rv +74 6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1 ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux 9 rv +73 5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7 ALSA-2025:20518

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 10 kernel 6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1 RLSA-2025:20095
Rocky Linux 9 kernel 5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7 RLSA-2025:20518
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150700.53.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01951-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150700.20.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01967-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.3.1.150700.17.2.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01951-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150600.23.50.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01614-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.37.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01707-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-coco +3 6.4.0-15061.21.coco15sp6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01919-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.50.1.150600.12.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01614-1
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-29.1.21.7 SUSE-SU-2025:20354-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_7 +1 1-1.2 SUSE-SU-2025:20355-1, SUSE-SU-2025:20354-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-31.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20355-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-29.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20354-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-29.1.21.7 SUSE-SU-2025:20343-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_7 +1 1-1.2 SUSE-SU-2025:20344-1, SUSE-SU-2025:20343-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-31.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20344-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-29.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20343-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01951-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_1 1-150700.15.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01951-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-default 6.4.0-150600.23.50.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01614-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_11 1-150600.1.3.2 SUSE-SU-2025:01964-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_11 1-150600.13.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01614-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.39.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01964-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.6 dtb-aarch64 +10 6.4.0-150600.23.50.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01614-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.37.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01707-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.50.1.150600.12.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01614-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.39.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01964-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 kernel 6.6.82.1-1 —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-101.33.4.3.el10uek ELSA-2025-20530, ELSA-2025-20480

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