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bpf, arm64: Force 8-byte alignment for JIT buffer to prevent atomic tearing
authorFuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:55:25 +0000 (07:55 +0000)
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:19:00 +0000 (11:19 -0800)
struct bpf_plt contains a u64 target field. Currently, the BPF JIT
allocator requests an alignment of 4 bytes (sizeof(u32)) for the JIT
buffer.

Because the base address of the JIT buffer can be 4-byte aligned (e.g.,
ending in 0x4 or 0xc), the relative padding logic in build_plt() fails
to ensure that target lands on an 8-byte boundary.

This leads to two issues:
1. UBSAN reports misaligned-access warnings when dereferencing the
   structure.
2. More critically, target is updated concurrently via WRITE_ONCE() in
   bpf_arch_text_poke() while the JIT'd code executes ldr. On arm64,
   64-bit loads/stores are only guaranteed to be single-copy atomic if
   they are 64-bit aligned. A misaligned target risks a torn read,
   causing the JIT to jump to a corrupted address.

Fix this by increasing the allocation alignment requirement to 8 bytes
(sizeof(u64)) in bpf_jit_binary_pack_alloc(). This anchors the base of
the JIT buffer to an 8-byte boundary, allowing the relative padding math
in build_plt() to correctly align the target field.

Fixes: b2ad54e1533e ("bpf, arm64: Implement bpf_arch_text_poke() for arm64")
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260226075525.233321-1-tabba@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c

index 356d33c7a4aeda75035e10139c9f797673388be2..adf84962d579d0672f35c3bb60a873669f45be48 100644 (file)
@@ -2119,7 +2119,7 @@ struct bpf_prog *bpf_int_jit_compile(struct bpf_prog *prog)
        extable_offset = round_up(prog_size + PLT_TARGET_SIZE, extable_align);
        image_size = extable_offset + extable_size;
        ro_header = bpf_jit_binary_pack_alloc(image_size, &ro_image_ptr,
-                                             sizeof(u32), &header, &image_ptr,
+                                             sizeof(u64), &header, &image_ptr,
                                              jit_fill_hole);
        if (!ro_header) {
                prog = orig_prog;