[PATCH v2] fscrypt: avoid data race on fscrypt_mode::logged_impl_name

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Mon Oct 21 2019 - 16:49:18 EST


From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

The access to logged_impl_name is technically a data race, which tools
like KCSAN could complain about in the future. See:
https://github.com/google/ktsan/wiki/READ_ONCE-and-WRITE_ONCE

Fix by using xchg(), which also ensures that only one thread does the
logging.

This also required switching from bool to int, to avoid a build error on
the RISC-V architecture which doesn't implement xchg on bytes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h | 2 +-
fs/crypto/keysetup.c | 6 ++----
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h b/fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h
index dacf8fcbac3be..d9a3e8614049f 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h
+++ b/fs/crypto/fscrypt_private.h
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ struct fscrypt_mode {
const char *cipher_str;
int keysize;
int ivsize;
- bool logged_impl_name;
+ int logged_impl_name;
};

static inline bool
diff --git a/fs/crypto/keysetup.c b/fs/crypto/keysetup.c
index b03b33643e4b2..28bc2da9be3c7 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/keysetup.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/keysetup.c
@@ -81,15 +81,13 @@ struct crypto_skcipher *fscrypt_allocate_skcipher(struct fscrypt_mode *mode,
mode->cipher_str, PTR_ERR(tfm));
return tfm;
}
- if (unlikely(!mode->logged_impl_name)) {
+ if (!xchg(&mode->logged_impl_name, 1)) {
/*
* fscrypt performance can vary greatly depending on which
* crypto algorithm implementation is used. Help people debug
* performance problems by logging the ->cra_driver_name the
- * first time a mode is used. Note that multiple threads can
- * race here, but it doesn't really matter.
+ * first time a mode is used.
*/
- mode->logged_impl_name = true;
pr_info("fscrypt: %s using implementation \"%s\"\n",
mode->friendly_name,
crypto_skcipher_alg(tfm)->base.cra_driver_name);
--
2.23.0.866.gb869b98d4c-goog