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
next prev 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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