[PATCH] percpu_counter: fix a data race at vm_committed_as

From: Qian Cai
Date: Fri Feb 21 2020 - 11:32:20 EST


"vm_committed_as.count" could be accessed concurrently as reported by
KCSAN,

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __vm_enough_memory / percpu_counter_add_batch

write to 0xffffffff9451c538 of 8 bytes by task 65879 on cpu 35:
percpu_counter_add_batch+0x83/0xd0
percpu_counter_add_batch at lib/percpu_counter.c:91
__vm_enough_memory+0xb9/0x260
dup_mm+0x3a4/0x8f0
copy_process+0x2458/0x3240
_do_fork+0xaa/0x9f0
__do_sys_clone+0x125/0x160
__x64_sys_clone+0x70/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x91/0xb05
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

read to 0xffffffff9451c538 of 8 bytes by task 66773 on cpu 19:
__vm_enough_memory+0x199/0x260
percpu_counter_read_positive at include/linux/percpu_counter.h:81
(inlined by) __vm_enough_memory at mm/util.c:839
mmap_region+0x1b2/0xa10
do_mmap+0x45c/0x700
vm_mmap_pgoff+0xc0/0x130
ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x6e/0x300
__x64_sys_mmap+0x33/0x40
do_syscall_64+0x91/0xb05
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

The read is outside percpu_counter::lock critical section which results
in a data race. Fix it by adding a READ_ONCE() in
percpu_counter_read_positive() which could also service as the existing
compiler memory barrier.

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
---
include/linux/percpu_counter.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/percpu_counter.h b/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
index 4f052496cdfd..0a4f54dd4737 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ static inline s64 percpu_counter_read(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
*/
static inline s64 percpu_counter_read_positive(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
{
- s64 ret = fbc->count;
+ /* Prevent reloads of fbc->count */
+ s64 ret = READ_ONCE(fbc->count);

- barrier(); /* Prevent reloads of fbc->count */
if (ret >= 0)
return ret;
return 0;
--
1.8.3.1