bpf: Allow sleepable programs to use LPM trie maps directly

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The previous change relaxed the rcu_dereference annotations in
lpm_trie.c so the trie walks no longer trip lockdep when reached from a
sleepable BPF program holding only rcu_read_lock_trace().  By itself
that only helps tries reached as the inner map of a map-of-maps, or
from the classic-RCU syscall path: a sleepable program that references
an LPM trie directly is still rejected at load time by
check_map_prog_compatibility(), whose sleepable whitelist omits
BPF_MAP_TYPE_LPM_TRIE:

  Sleepable programs can only use array, hash, ringbuf and local storage maps

LPM trie nodes are allocated from a bpf_mem_alloc (trie->ma) and freed
with bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu(), which chains a regular RCU grace period
into a Tasks Trace grace period before the node -- and the value
embedded in it that trie_lookup_elem() returns to the program -- is
released.  That is the same reclaim discipline BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH relies
on for sleepable access, so a value handed to a sleepable reader cannot
be freed while the program is still running under rcu_read_lock_trace().
The writer paths take trie->lock across the walk and never relied on the
RCU read-side lock to keep nodes alive.

Add BPF_MAP_TYPE_LPM_TRIE to the sleepable map whitelist so these
programs can use LPM tries directly.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Poenaru <vlad.wing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260609135558.193287-3-vlad.wing@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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Vlad Poenaru 2026-06-09 06:55:58 -07:00 • committed by Alexei Starovoitov

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