[PATCH -next v2] mm: mark an intentional data race in page_zonenum

Qian Cai
2020-02-06T18:30:20Z

page->flags could be accessed concurrently as noticied by KCSAN,

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in page_cpupid_xchg_last / put_page

write (marked) to 0xfffffc0d48ec1a00 of 8 bytes by task 91442 on cpu 3:
page_cpupid_xchg_last+0x51/0x80
page_cpupid_xchg_last at mm/mmzone.c:109 (discriminator 11)
wp_page_reuse+0x3e/0xc0
wp_page_reuse at mm/memory.c:2453
do_wp_page+0x472/0x7b0
do_wp_page at mm/memory.c:2798
__handle_mm_fault+0xcb0/0xd00
handle_pte_fault at mm/memory.c:4049
(inlined by) __handle_mm_fault at mm/memory.c:4163
handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0
handle_mm_fault at mm/memory.c:4200
do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9
do_user_addr_fault at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1465
(inlined by) do_page_fault at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1539
page_fault+0x34/0x40

read to 0xfffffc0d48ec1a00 of 8 bytes by task 94817 on cpu 69:
put_page+0x15a/0x1f0
page_zonenum at include/linux/mm.h:923
(inlined by) is_zone_device_page at include/linux/mm.h:929
(inlined by) page_is_devmap_managed at include/linux/mm.h:948
(inlined by) put_page at include/linux/mm.h:1023
wp_page_copy+0x571/0x930
wp_page_copy at mm/memory.c:2615
do_wp_page+0x107/0x7b0
__handle_mm_fault+0xcb0/0xd00
handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0
do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9
page_fault+0x34/0x40

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 69 PID: 94817 Comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: G W O L 5.5.0-next-20200204+ #6
Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10/ProLiant DL385 Gen10, BIOS A40 07/10/2019

Both the read and write are done only with the non-exclusive mmap_sem
held. Since the read only check for a specific bit range (up to 3 bits)
in the flag but the write here never change those 3 bits, so load
tearing would be harmless here. Thus, just mark it as an intentional
data races using the data_race() macro which is designed for those
situations [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAHk-=wg5CkOEF8DTez1Qu0XTEFw_oHhxN98bDnFqbY7HL5AB2g@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
---

v2: update the commit log.

include/linux/mm.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 52269e56c514..cafccad584c2 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ vm_fault_t finish_mkwrite_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf);

static inline enum zone_type page_zonenum(const struct page *page)
{
- return (page->flags >> ZONES_PGSHIFT) & ZONES_MASK;
+ return data_race((page->flags >> ZONES_PGSHIFT) & ZONES_MASK);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE
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