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* [PATCH v2] mm/percpu: prevent concurrency problem for pcpu_nr_populated read with spin lock
@ 2025-07-03  6:56 Jeongjun Park
  2025-07-11 15:56 ` Vlastimil Babka
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jeongjun Park @ 2025-07-03  6:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dennis, tj, cl
  Cc: akpm, roman.gushchin, rientjes, vbabka, shakeel.butt, linux-mm,
	linux-kernel, syzbot+e5bd32b79413e86f389e, Jeongjun Park

pcpu_nr_pages() reads pcpu_nr_populated without any protection, which
causes a data race between read/write.

However, since this is an intended race, we should add a data_race
annotation instead of add a spin lock.

Reported-by: syzbot+e5bd32b79413e86f389e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 7e8a6304d541 ("/proc/meminfo: add percpu populated pages count")
Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
---
v2: Change it as suggested by Shakeel Butt
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250702082749.141616-1-aha310510@gmail.com/
---
 mm/percpu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index b35494c8ede2..782cc148b39c 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -3355,7 +3355,7 @@ void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
  */
 unsigned long pcpu_nr_pages(void)
 {
-	return pcpu_nr_populated * pcpu_nr_units;
+	return data_race(READ_ONCE(pcpu_nr_populated) * pcpu_nr_units);
 }
 
 /*
--

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