When unpinning a BPF hash table (htab or htab_lru) that contains internal structures (timer, workqueue, or task_work) in its values, a BUG warning is triggered: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:244 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 14, name: ksoftirqd/0 ...
The issue arises from the interaction between BPF object unpinning and RCU callback mechanisms: 1. BPF object unpinning uses ->free_inode() which schedules cleanup via call_rcu(), deferring the actual freeing to an RCU callback that executes within the RCU_SOFTIRQ context. 2. During cleanup of hash tables containing internal structures, htab_map_free_internal_structs() is invoked, which includes cond_resched() or cond_resched_rcu() calls to yield the CPU during potentially long operations. However, cond_resched() or cond_resched_rcu() cannot be safely called from atomic RCU softirq context, leading to the BUG warning when attempting to reschedule. Fix this by changing from ->free_inode() to ->destroy_inode() and rename bpf_free_inode() to bpf_destroy_inode() for BPF objects (prog, map, link). This allows direct inode freeing without RCU callback scheduling, avoiding the invalid context warning. Reported-by: Le Chen <[email protected]> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Fixes: 68134668c17f ("bpf: Add map side support for bpf timers.") Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: KaFai Wan <[email protected]> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <[email protected]> --- kernel/bpf/inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/inode.c b/kernel/bpf/inode.c index f90bdcc0a047..81780bcf8d25 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/inode.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/inode.c @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ static int bpf_show_options(struct seq_file *m, struct dentry *root) return 0; } -static void bpf_free_inode(struct inode *inode) +static void bpf_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) { enum bpf_type type; @@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ const struct super_operations bpf_super_ops = { .statfs = simple_statfs, .drop_inode = inode_just_drop, .show_options = bpf_show_options, - .free_inode = bpf_free_inode, + .destroy_inode = bpf_destroy_inode, }; enum { -- 2.43.0
