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  - bpf: Fix oob access in cgroup local storage Lonial reported that an out-of-bounds access in cgroup local     storage can be crafted via tail calls. Given two programs each utilizing a cgroup local storage with a     different value size, and one program doing a tail call into the other. The verifier will validate each of     the indivial programs just fine. However, in the runtime context the bpf_cg_run_ctx holds an     bpf_prog_array_item which contains the BPF program as well as any cgroup local storage flavor the program     uses. Helpers such as bpf_get_local_storage() pick this up from the runtime context: ctx =     container_of(current->bpf_ctx, struct bpf_cg_run_ctx, run_ctx); storage =     ctx->prog_item->cgroup_storage[stype]; if (stype == BPF_CGROUP_STORAGE_SHARED) ptr =     &READ_ONCE(storage->buf)->data[0]; else ptr = this_cpu_ptr(storage->percpu_buf); For the second program     which was called from the originally attached one, this means bpf_get_local_storage() will pick up the     former program's map, not its own. With mismatching sizes, this can result in an unintended out-of-bounds     access. To fix this issue, we need to extend bpf_map_owner with an array of storage_cookie[] to match on     i) the exact maps from the original program if the second program was using bpf_get_local_storage(), or     ii) allow the tail call combination if the second program was not using any of the cgroup local storage     maps. (CVE-2025-38502)

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