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Commit 7deca5ea authored by Dave Marchevsky's avatar Dave Marchevsky Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf: Disable bpf_refcount_acquire kfunc calls until race conditions are fixed

As reported by Kumar in [0], the shared ownership implementation for BPF
programs has some race conditions which need to be addressed before it
can safely be used. This patch does so in a minimal way instead of
ripping out shared ownership entirely, as proper fixes for the issues
raised will follow ASAP, at which point this patch's commit can be
reverted to re-enable shared ownership.

The patch removes the ability to call bpf_refcount_acquire_impl from BPF
programs. Programs can only bump refcount and obtain a new owning
reference using this kfunc, so removing the ability to call it
effectively disables shared ownership.

Instead of changing success / failure expectations for
bpf_refcount-related selftests, this patch just disables them from
running for now.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/d7hyspcow5wtjcmw4fugdgyp3fwhljwuscp3xyut5qnwivyeru@ysdq543otzv2/



Reported-by: default avatarKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230424204321.2680232-1-davemarchevsky@fb.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
parent 35150203
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