Re: [PATCH v2] mm/filemap: fix a data race in filemap_fault()

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Feb 11 2020 - 08:24:43 EST


On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:55:45PM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
>
>
> > On Feb 10, 2020, at 10:49 PM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:01:34PM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
> >> struct file_ra_state ra.mmap_miss could be accessed concurrently during
> >> page faults as noticed by KCSAN,
> >>
> >> BUG: KCSAN: data-race in filemap_fault / filemap_map_pages
> >>
> >> write to 0xffff9b1700a2c1b4 of 4 bytes by task 3292 on cpu 30:
> >> filemap_fault+0x920/0xfc0
> >> do_sync_mmap_readahead at mm/filemap.c:2384
> >> (inlined by) filemap_fault at mm/filemap.c:2486
> >> __xfs_filemap_fault+0x112/0x3e0 [xfs]
> >> xfs_filemap_fault+0x74/0x90 [xfs]
> >> __do_fault+0x9e/0x220
> >> do_fault+0x4a0/0x920
> >> __handle_mm_fault+0xc69/0xd00
> >> handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0
> >> do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9
> >> page_fault+0x34/0x40
> >>
> >> read to 0xffff9b1700a2c1b4 of 4 bytes by task 3313 on cpu 32:
> >> filemap_map_pages+0xc2e/0xd80
> >> filemap_map_pages at mm/filemap.c:2625
> >> do_fault+0x3da/0x920
> >> __handle_mm_fault+0xc69/0xd00
> >> handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0
> >> do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9
> >> page_fault+0x34/0x40
> >>
> >> Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
> >> CPU: 32 PID: 3313 Comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: G W L 5.5.0-next-20200210+ #1
> >> Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10/ProLiant DL385 Gen10, BIOS A40 07/10/2019
> >>
> >> ra.mmap_miss is used to contribute the readahead decisions, a data race
> >> could be undesirable. Both the read and write is only under
> >> non-exclusive mmap_sem, two concurrent writers could even overflow the
> >> counter. Fixing the underflow by writing to a local variable before
> >> committing a final store to ra.mmap_miss given a small inaccuracy of the
> >> counter should be acceptable.
> >>
> >> Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> >
> > That's more than Suggested-by. The correct way to submit this patch is:
> >
> > From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > (at the top of the patch, so it gets credited to Kirill)
>
> Sure, if Kirill is going to provide his Signed-off-by in the first place, Iâll be happy to
> submit it on his behalf.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Kirill A. Shutemov