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From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
	Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>,
	linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] module: Fix data race on mod_unload_taint::count
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:05:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261020-taint-unload-v1-2-d1c764889afc@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261020-taint-unload-v1-0-d1c764889afc@suse.com>

Updates to mod_unload_taint::count are serialized by module_mutex. However,
readers may access this value concurrently with these updates. Since the
counter is a u64, this can result in torn reads on 32-bit architectures.

Fix the issue by changing mod_unload_taint::count to 'unsigned int' and
using WRITE_ONCE()/READ_ONCE() to access it.

Fixes: 99bd9956551b ("module: Introduce module unload taint tracking")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
---
 kernel/module/internal.h |  8 +++++++-
 kernel/module/tracking.c | 12 ++++++++----
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module/internal.h b/kernel/module/internal.h
index 061161cc79d9..70ef20b97c84 100644
--- a/kernel/module/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/module/internal.h
@@ -257,7 +257,13 @@ struct mod_unload_taint {
 	struct list_head list;
 	char name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
 	unsigned long taints;
-	u64 count;
+
+	/*
+	 * Number of times a module with this name and taint combination has
+	 * been unloaded. Updates are serialized by module_mutex and use
+	 * WRITE_ONCE(). Readers that may run concurrently use READ_ONCE().
+	 */
+	unsigned int count;
 };
 
 int try_add_tainted_module(struct module *mod);
diff --git a/kernel/module/tracking.c b/kernel/module/tracking.c
index 5bcd1c2701f0..873fceb30526 100644
--- a/kernel/module/tracking.c
+++ b/kernel/module/tracking.c
@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ int try_add_tainted_module(struct module *mod)
 				lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex)) {
 		if (!strcmp(mod_taint->name, mod->name) &&
 		    mod_taint->taints == mod->taints) {
-			mod_taint->count++;
+			unsigned int count = mod_taint->count;
+
+			if (count != UINT_MAX)
+				WRITE_ONCE(mod_taint->count, count + 1);
 			goto out;
 		}
 	}
@@ -57,8 +60,8 @@ void print_unloaded_tainted_modules(void)
 
 			l = module_flags_taint(mod_taint->taints, buf);
 			buf[l++] = '\0';
-			pr_cont(" %s(%s):%llu", mod_taint->name, buf,
-				mod_taint->count);
+			pr_cont(" %s(%s):%u", mod_taint->name, buf,
+				READ_ONCE(mod_taint->count));
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -92,7 +95,8 @@ static int unloaded_tainted_modules_seq_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
 	l = module_flags_taint(mod_taint->taints, buf);
 	buf[l++] = '\0';
 
-	seq_printf(m, "%s (%s) %llu", mod_taint->name, buf, mod_taint->count);
+	seq_printf(m, "%s (%s) %u", mod_taint->name, buf,
+		   READ_ONCE(mod_taint->count));
 	seq_puts(m, "\n");
 
 	return 0;

-- 
2.55.0

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-20 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-20 14:05 [PATCH 0/3] module: Fixes to tracking taint flags for unloaded modules Petr Pavlu
2026-10-20 14:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] module: Fix missing " Petr Pavlu
2026-10-20 15:10   ` Aaron Tomlin
2026-10-20 14:05 ` Petr Pavlu [this message]
2026-10-20 14:13   ` [PATCH 2/3] module: Fix data race on mod_unload_taint::count sashiko-bot
2026-10-20 14:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] module: Move mod_unload_taint to tracking.c Petr Pavlu
2026-10-20 15:09   ` Aaron Tomlin

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