bpf: Account insn_aux_data allocation in bpf_check

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The insn_aux_data array is allocated with a plain vzalloc(), while every
other allocation scoped to the verification - verifier states, explored
states, the cfg/scc arrays, liveness masks, jump history - is charged to
the loader's memcg via GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT.

At 136 bytes per instruction it is one of the largest verification-time
buffers, in the range of ~130MB for a program at the 1M instruction limit
(worst case), and it lives across the whole verification. The buffer is
also inconsistent with itself: when instruction patching grows it, the
vrealloc() in bpf_patch_insn_data() already passes GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708211537.371874-4-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>

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Daniel Borkmann 2026-07-08 23:15:36 +02:00 • committed by Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi

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