linux-kernel - Re: Data race in __inode_add

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Message-ID: <CACT4Y+bUoPXLwGhiFq35mt2rphDLbF4oztt67=RP3CXfERNDDw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:21:14 +0200
From:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Data race in __inode_add_bytes

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We are working on a dynamic data race detector for the Linux kernel,
> KernelThreadSanitizer (ktsan):
> https://github.com/google/ktsan/wiki
>
> We got a report while running ktsan on 4.2:
>
> ==================================================================
> ThreadSanitizer: data-race in __inode_add_bytes
>
> Write of size 8 by thread T210 (K740):
>  [<ffffffff81266435>] __inode_add_bytes+0x55/0xd0 fs/stat.c:451
>  [<ffffffff812f90c0>] inode_claim_rsv_space+0x60/0xa0 fs/quota/dquot.c:1557
>  [<ffffffff812f9f7b>] dquot_claim_space_nodirty+0x3b/0x280 fs/quota/dquot.c:1721
>  [<     inlined    >] ext4_da_update_reserve_space+0x13b/0x2c0
> dquot_claim_block include/linux/quotaops.h:345
>  [<ffffffff81335dab>] ext4_da_update_reserve_space+0x13b/0x2c0
> fs/ext4/inode.c:350
>  [<ffffffff81384cf0>] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1570/0x1a30 fs/ext4/extents.c:4597
>  [<ffffffff8133610a>] ext4_map_blocks+0x1da/0x7b0 fs/ext4/inode.c:592
>  [<     inlined    >] ext4_writepages+0x976/0x1480
> mpage_map_one_extent fs/ext4/inode.c:2109
>  [<     inlined    >] ext4_writepages+0x976/0x1480
> mpage_map_and_submit_extent fs/ext4/inode.c:2165
>  [<ffffffff8133b7b6>] ext4_writepages+0x976/0x1480 fs/ext4/inode.c:2508
>  [<ffffffff811dbd23>] do_writepages+0x53/0x80 mm/page-writeback.c:2332
>  [<ffffffff812a76bf>] __writeback_single_inode+0x7f/0x530
> fs/fs-writeback.c:1259 (discriminator 3)
>  [<ffffffff812a7fd4>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x464/0x690 fs/fs-writeback.c:1516
>  [<ffffffff812a82c1>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0xc1/0x100 fs/fs-writeback.c:1562
>  [<ffffffff812a86ae>] wb_writeback+0x3ae/0x450 fs/fs-writeback.c:1666
>  [<     inlined    >] wb_workfn+0x203/0x780 wb_do_writeback
> fs/fs-writeback.c:1801
>  [<ffffffff812a91c3>] wb_workfn+0x203/0x780 fs/fs-writeback.c:1852
>  [<ffffffff810b06ce>] process_one_work+0x28e/0x710 kernel/workqueue.c:2036
>  [<ffffffff810b1299>] worker_thread+0xb9/0x750 kernel/workqueue.c:2170
>  [<ffffffff810b9c61>] kthread+0x161/0x180 kernel/kthread.c:209
>  [<ffffffff81eb0a1f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:526
>
> Previous read of size 8 by thread T512 (K7200):
>  [<     inlined    >] ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x454/0xe20
> ext4_inode_blocks_set fs/ext4/inode.c:4272
>  [<     inlined    >] ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x454/0xe20
> ext4_do_update_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:4430
>  [<ffffffff8133a014>] ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x454/0xe20 fs/ext4/inode.c:4937
>  [<ffffffff8133ab8b>] ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0xdb/0x390 fs/ext4/inode.c:5053
>  [<ffffffff8133f929>] ext4_dirty_inode+0x59/0x80 fs/ext4/inode.c:5085
>  [<ffffffff812a7319>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x2c9/0x5f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2015
>  [<ffffffff8128a58e>] generic_update_time+0xbe/0x150 fs/inode.c:1566
>  [<     inlined    >] file_update_time+0x112/0x1b0 update_time fs/inode.c:1582
>  [<ffffffff812890f2>] file_update_time+0x112/0x1b0 fs/inode.c:1785
>  [<ffffffff811cb175>] __generic_file_write_iter+0x105/0x2e0 mm/filemap.c:2570
>  [<ffffffff8132c3a4>] ext4_file_write_iter+0x254/0x740 fs/ext4/file.c:170
>  [<     inlined    >] __vfs_write+0x19c/0x1e0 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:478
>  [<ffffffff8125d48c>] __vfs_write+0x19c/0x1e0 fs/read_write.c:491
>  [<ffffffff8125dde6>] vfs_write+0xf6/0x2a0 fs/read_write.c:538
>  [<     inlined    >] SyS_write+0x6b/0xd0 SYSC_write fs/read_write.c:585
>  [<ffffffff8125f37b>] SyS_write+0x6b/0xd0 fs/read_write.c:577
>  [<ffffffff81eb062e>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:186
> ==================================================================
>
> The 'inode->i_blocks' field is updated in one thread, while being read
> and used in another.
>
> This can probably be fixed with a few READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE or by
> taking inode->i_lock in ext4_inode_blocks_set.


READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE won't do since i_blocks is u64.
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