Re: [PATCH] Detect and warn on atomic_inc/atomic_dec wrapping around

Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-05-08T10:39:30Z

On Friday 08 May 2009 05:53:16 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:39:50 +0530
>
> Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@novell.com> wrote:
> > Detect and warn on atomic_inc/atomic_dec overflow.
> >
> > Add a debug option to detect and warn when the 32-bit atomic_t overflows
> > during atomic_inc and atomic_dec.
> >
> >
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/atomic.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/atomic.h
> > @@ -4,15 +4,51 @@
> > * Copyright (C) 2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
> > * Christoph Lameter
> > *
> > - * Allows to provide arch independent atomic definitions without the
> > need to - * edit all arch specific atomic.h files.
> > */
> >
> > +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> > #include <asm/types.h>
> > +#include <asm/bug.h>
>
> We're going to have real trouble making changes like this to a
> low-level header file - sparc64 results below.
>
> > +/**
> > + * atomic_inc - increment atomic variable
> > + * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
> > + *
> > + * Atomically increments @v by 1.
> > + */
> > +static inline void atomic_inc(atomic_t *v)
> > +{
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_ATOMIC_INC_WRAP
> > + WARN_ONCE((atomic_read(v) > (INT_MAX / 2)),
> > + KERN_ERR "atomic inc overflow!");
> > +#endif
> > + raw_atomic_inc(v);
> > +}
>
> Are we allowed to assume that atomic_inc==raw_atomic_inc for all
> architectures which use this definition?
>

No. Only for architectures that have HAVE_ARCH_DEBUG_ATOMIC. I missed
enclosing the change with #ifdef HAVE_ARCH_DEBUG_ATOMIC. That should solve the
problem as it wont be built for other architectures at all.

> Do we know that atomic_read() is defined at this point?
>

Yes.

>
> We can avoid the problematic includes via
>
> extern void atomic_inc_screwed_up(atomic_t *v);
>

This and even having atomic_inc defined as a c function instead of a macro has
a problem. WARN_ONCE would warn only once even if more than 1 variable wraps
around. So should we have atomic_inc itself as a macro instead?

Also it would report the location in source as include/asm-generic/atomic.h
instead of the caller. But it should be fine as stack trace would be printed.

Anyway I have converted warn_once as an extern function.

Changes from the previous version:
1. Enclose everything with #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_DEBUG_ATOMIC.
2. Make the warn_once as an extern function and remove the
#include<asm/bug.h>. This is not required as CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_DEBUG_ATOMIC is
defined onlf for x86 and it does not have problem with this include. I think
we could remove this and also make everything as macro?

The linux/kernel.h is used for INT_MAX which can also be avoided by
redefining, if required.

Thanks
Nikanth

Subject: atomic: detect and warn on atomic_inc/atomic_dec wrapping around
From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@novell.com>

Add a debug option to detect and warn when the 32-bit atomic_t overflows
during atomic_inc and atomic_dec.

We expect that overflow and underflow of an atomic_t is usually a bug.
There was a patch of this nature in -mm for a long time and it never
triggered false positives and it did find a couple of real bugs.

The option is default-y for now. It will have a fairly nasty impact on
.text size so we may decide to switch it to default-n prior to a kernel
release.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index df9e885..dd49be3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
+ select HAVE_ARCH_DEBUG_ATOMIC

config ARCH_DEFCONFIG
string
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h
index 85b46fb..c6a17bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h
@@ -78,24 +78,24 @@ static inline int atomic_sub_and_test(int i, atomic_t *v)
}

/**
- * atomic_inc - increment atomic variable
+ * raw_atomic_inc - increment atomic variable
* @v: pointer of type atomic_t
*
* Atomically increments @v by 1.
*/
-static inline void atomic_inc(atomic_t *v)
+static inline void raw_atomic_inc(atomic_t *v)
{
asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "incl %0"
: "+m" (v->counter));
}

/**
- * atomic_dec - decrement atomic variable
+ * raw_atomic_dec - decrement atomic variable
* @v: pointer of type atomic_t
*
* Atomically decrements @v by 1.
*/
-static inline void atomic_dec(atomic_t *v)
+static inline void raw_atomic_dec(atomic_t *v)
{
asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "decl %0"
: "+m" (v->counter));
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_64.h
index 8c21731..1183b85 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_64.h
@@ -77,12 +77,12 @@ static inline int atomic_sub_and_test(int i, atomic_t *v)
}

/**
- * atomic_inc - increment atomic variable
+ * raw_atomic_inc - increment atomic variable
* @v: pointer of type atomic_t
*
* Atomically increments @v by 1.
*/
-static inline void atomic_inc(atomic_t *v)
+static inline void raw_atomic_inc(atomic_t *v)
{
asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "incl %0"
: "=m" (v->counter)
@@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ static inline void atomic_inc(atomic_t *v)
}

/**
- * atomic_dec - decrement atomic variable
+ * raw_atomic_dec - decrement atomic variable
* @v: pointer of type atomic_t
*
* Atomically decrements @v by 1.
*/
-static inline void atomic_dec(atomic_t *v)
+static inline void raw_atomic_dec(atomic_t *v)
{
asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "decl %0"
: "=m" (v->counter)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/atomic.h b/include/asm-generic/atomic.h
index 3673a13..b14e8ce 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/atomic.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/atomic.h
@@ -4,15 +4,56 @@
* Copyright (C) 2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
* Christoph Lameter
*
- * Allows to provide arch independent atomic definitions without the need to
- * edit all arch specific atomic.h files.
*/

#include <asm/types.h>

+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_DEBUG_ATOMIC
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_ATOMIC_INC_WRAP
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+extern void warn_once(bool condition, char *msg);
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * atomic_inc - increment atomic variable
+ * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
+ *
+ * Atomically increments @v by 1.
+ */
+static inline void atomic_inc(atomic_t *v)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_ATOMIC_INC_WRAP
+ warn_once((atomic_read(v) > (INT_MAX / 2)),
+ KERN_ERR "atomic inc overflow!");
+#endif
+ raw_atomic_inc(v);
+}
+
+/**
+ * atomic_dec - decrement atomic variable
+ * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
+ *
+ * Atomically decrements @v by 1.
+ */
+static inline void atomic_dec(atomic_t *v)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_ATOMIC_INC_WRAP
+ warn_once((atomic_read(v) < (INT_MIN / 2)),
+ KERN_ERR "atomic dec underflow!");
+#endif
+ raw_atomic_dec(v);
+
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_DEBUG_ATOMIC */
+
/*
* Suppport for atomic_long_t
*
+ * Allows to provide arch independent atomic definitions without the need to
+ * edit all arch specific atomic.h files.
+ *
* Casts for parameters are avoided for existing atomic functions in order to
* avoid issues with cast-as-lval under gcc 4.x and other limitations that the
* macros of a platform may have.
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 5052b54..48fef2c 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
+#include <linux/bug.h>

#include <asm/uaccess.h>

@@ -1322,3 +1323,13 @@ bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk_timed_ratelimit);
#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_ATOMIC_INC_WRAP
+
+void warn_once(bool condition, char *msg)
+{
+ WARN_ONCE(condition, msg);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(warn_once);
+
+#endif
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 812c282..773c1a4 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -17,6 +17,17 @@ config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
Disable this to suppress the "warning: 'foo' is deprecated
(declared at kernel/power/somefile.c:1234)" messages.

+config HAVE_ARCH_DEBUG_ATOMIC
+ bool
+
+config ENABLE_WARN_ATOMIC_INC_WRAP
+ bool "Enable warning on atomic_inc()/atomic_dec() wrap"
+ depends on HAVE_ARCH_DEBUG_ATOMIC
+ default y
+ help
+ Enable printing a warning when atomic_inc() or atomic_dec()
+ operation wraps around the 32-bit value.
+
config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
bool "Enable __must_check logic"
default y