[PATCH v3] mm: assert exclusive nid/zonenum bits at the page/folio access sites
From: Hui Zhu
Date: Wed Jun 24 2026 - 22:41:12 EST
From: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@xxxxxxxxxx>
KCSAN reports a data race between page_to_nid()/folio_pgdat() reading
page->flags and folio_trylock()/folio_lock() concurrently doing
test_and_set_bit_lock(PG_locked, ...) on the same word, e.g.:
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __lruvec_stat_mod_folio / shmem_get_folio_gfp
The node id and zone id occupy fixed bit-ranges of page->flags that
are set once at page init and never modified afterwards, so they can
never overlap with the low PG_locked/PG_waiters bits touched by the
folio lock path.
ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS(mdf.f, ...) inside memdesc_nid()/memdesc_zonenum()
checks a by-value copy of the flags word, not the actual shared
page->flags/folio->flags being modified concurrently, so it doesn't
reliably assert anything about the real race. Move the assertion to
page_to_nid(), folio_nid(), page_zonenum() and folio_zonenum(), where
flags is dereferenced directly from the page/folio.
Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changelog:
v3:
According to the comments of Andrew and Sashiko, move
ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS out of memdesc_nid()/memdesc_zonenum()
into the page/folio call sites.
v2:
According to the comments of David, remove useless comments and use
ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS() in memdesc_nid() instead of data_race() in
page_to_nid().
include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++++
include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 485df9c2dbdd..734e9de8f4ce 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2296,11 +2296,15 @@ static inline int memdesc_nid(memdesc_flags_t mdf)
static inline int page_to_nid(const struct page *page)
{
+ ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS(PF_POISONED_CHECK(page)->flags,
+ NODES_MASK << NODES_PGSHIFT);
return memdesc_nid(PF_POISONED_CHECK(page)->flags);
}
static inline int folio_nid(const struct folio *folio)
{
+ ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS(folio->flags,
+ NODES_MASK << NODES_PGSHIFT);
return memdesc_nid(folio->flags);
}
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index ca2712187147..56dffa966343 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -1274,17 +1274,18 @@ static inline bool zone_is_empty(const struct zone *zone)
static inline enum zone_type memdesc_zonenum(memdesc_flags_t flags)
{
- ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS(flags.f, ZONES_MASK << ZONES_PGSHIFT);
return (flags.f >> ZONES_PGSHIFT) & ZONES_MASK;
}
static inline enum zone_type page_zonenum(const struct page *page)
{
+ ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS(page->flags, ZONES_MASK << ZONES_PGSHIFT);
return memdesc_zonenum(page->flags);
}
static inline enum zone_type folio_zonenum(const struct folio *folio)
{
+ ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS(folio->flags, ZONES_MASK << ZONES_PGSHIFT);
return memdesc_zonenum(folio->flags);
}
--
2.43.0