Re: [PATCH v1] pid: annotate data-races around pid_ns->pid_allocated

["Jiayuan Chen" <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>]

April 24, 2025 at 17:38, "Christian Brauner" <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 06:38:18PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
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> > On 04/23, Jiayuan Chen wrote:
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> >  April 23, 2025 at 21:51, "Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
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> >  >
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> >  > On 04/23, Jiayuan Chen wrote:
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> >  > > Suppress syzbot reports by annotating these accesses using
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> >  > >
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> >  > > READ_ONCE() / WRITE_ONCE().
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> >  > >
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> >  >
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> >  > ...
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> >  > >
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> >  > > --- a/kernel/pid.c
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> >  > >
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> >  > > +++ b/kernel/pid.c
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> >  > >
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> >  > > @@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ void free_pid(struct pid *pid)
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> >  > >
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> >  > > for (i = 0; i <= pid->level; i++) {
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> >  > >
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> >  > > struct upid *upid = pid->numbers + i;
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> >  > >
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> >  > > struct pid_namespace *ns = upid->ns;
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> >  > >
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> >  > > - switch (--ns->pid_allocated) {
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> >  > >
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> >  > > + WRITE_ONCE(ns->pid_allocated, READ_ONCE(ns->pid_allocated) - 1);
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> >  > >
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> >  > > + switch (READ_ONCE(ns->pid_allocated)) {
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> >  > I keep forgetting how kcsan works, but we don't need
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> >  > READ_ONCE(ns->pid_allocated) under pidmap_lock?
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> >  >
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> >  > Same for other functions which read/modify ->pid_allocated with
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> >  > this lock held.
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> >  >
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> >  > Oleg.
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> >  >
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> >  However, not all places that read/write pid_allocated are locked,
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> >  for example:
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> >  https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/kernel/pid_namespace.c#n271
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> >  https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/kernel/fork.c#n2602
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> >  So, in fact, the pidmap_lock is not effective. And if we were to add locks
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> >  to all these places, it would be too heavy.
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> >  
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> >  It seems you misunderstood me. I didn't argue with the lockless READ_ONCE()s
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> >  outside of pidmap_lock.
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> 
> Agreed. We should only add those annotations where they're really
> 
> needed (someone once taught me ;).
>

Thank you for your suggestion, it make sense to me.