bpf: Free struct bpf_cpumask in call_rcu handler
The struct bpf_cpumask type uses the bpf_mem_cache_{alloc,free}() APIs to allocate and free its cpumasks. The bpf_mem allocator may currently immediately reuse some memory when its freed, without waiting for an RCU read cycle to elapse. We want to be able to treat struct bpf_cpumask objects as completely RCU safe. This is necessary for two reasons: 1. bpf_cpumask_kptr_get() currently does an RCU-protected refcnt_inc_not_zero(). This of course assumes that the underlying memory is not reused, and is therefore unsafe in its current form. 2. We want to be able to get rid of bpf_cpumask_kptr_get() entirely, and intead use the superior kptr RCU semantics now afforded by the verifier. This patch fixes (1), and enables (2), by making struct bpf_cpumask RCU safe. A subsequent patch will update the verifier to allow struct bpf_cpumask * pointers to be passed to KF_RCU kfuncs, and then a latter patch will remove bpf_cpumask_kptr_get(). Fixes: 516f4d33 ("bpf: Enable cpumasks to be queried and used as kptrs") Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230316054028.88924-2-void@manifault.comSigned-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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