After further analysis, the bug is triggered by
Commit eaaacd23910f ("bpf: Add task and task/file iterator targets")
which introduced task_file bpf iterator, which traverses all open file
descriptors for all tasks in the current namespace.
The latest `bpftool prog` calls a task_file bpf program to traverse
all files in the system in order to associate processes with progs/maps, etc.
When traversing files for a given task, rcu read_lock is taken to
access all files in a file_struct. But it used get_file() to grab
a file, which is not right. It is possible file->f_count is 0 and
get_file() will unconditionally increase it.
Later put_file() may cause all kind of issues with the above
as one of sympotoms.
The failure can be reproduced with the following steps in a few seconds:
$ cat t.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define N 10000
int fd[N];
int main() {
int i;
for (i = 0; i < N; i++) {
fd[i] = open("./note.txt", 'r');
if (fd[i] < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "failed\n");
return -1;
}
}
for (i = 0; i < N; i++)
close(fd[i]);
return 0;
}
$ gcc -O2 t.c
$ cat run.sh
#/bin/bash
for i in {1..100}
do
while true; do ./a.out; done &
done
$ ./run.sh
$ while true; do bpftool prog >& /dev/null; done
This patch used get_file_rcu() which only grabs a file if the
file->f_count is not zero. This is to ensure the file pointer
is always valid. The above reproducer did not fail for more
than 30 minutes.
Fixes: eaaacd23910f ("bpf: Add task and task/file iterator targets") Suggested-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200817174214.252601-1-yhs@fb.com