linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] taskstats: fix data-race

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Message-ID: <20191007141432.GA22083@andrea.guest.corp.microsoft.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Oct 2019 16:14:32 +0200
From:   Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        bsingharora@...il.com, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzbot <syzbot+c5d03165a1bd1dead0c1@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] taskstats: fix data-race

> > >  static struct taskstats *taskstats_tgid_alloc(struct task_struct *tsk)
> > >  {
> > >       struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal;
> > > -     struct taskstats *stats;
> > > +     struct taskstats *stats_new, *stats;
> > >
> > > -     if (sig->stats || thread_group_empty(tsk))
> > > -             goto ret;
> > > +     /* Pairs with smp_store_release() below. */
> > > +     stats = READ_ONCE(sig->stats);
> >
> > This pairing suggests that the READ_ONCE() is heading an address
> > dependency, but I fail to identify it: what is the target memory
> > access of such a (putative) dependency?
> 
> I would assume callers of this function access *stats. So the
> dependency is between loading stats and accessing *stats.

AFAICT, the only caller of the function in 5.4-rc2 is taskstats_exit(),
which 'casts' the return value to a boolean (so I really don't see how
any address dependency could be carried over/relied upon here).

  Andrea