linux-kernel - [PATCH -next] mm/swap_state: mark an intentional data race

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Message-Id: <20200206035516.2593-1-cai@lca.pw>
Date:   Wed,  5 Feb 2020 22:55:16 -0500
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Subject: [PATCH -next] mm/swap_state: mark an intentional data race

swap_cache_info.find_total could be accessed concurrently as noticed by
KCSAN,

 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in lookup_swap_cache / lookup_swap_cache

 write to 0xffffffff85517318 of 8 bytes by task 94138 on cpu 101:
  lookup_swap_cache+0x12e/0x460
  lookup_swap_cache at mm/swap_state.c:322
  do_swap_page+0x112/0xeb0
  __handle_mm_fault+0xc7a/0xd00
  handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0
  do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9
  page_fault+0x34/0x40

 read to 0xffffffff85517318 of 8 bytes by task 91655 on cpu 100:
  lookup_swap_cache+0x117/0x460
  lookup_swap_cache at mm/swap_state.c:322
  shmem_swapin_page+0xc7/0x9e0
  shmem_getpage_gfp+0x2ca/0x16c0
  shmem_fault+0xef/0x3c0
  __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

 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
 CPU: 100 PID: 91655 Comm: systemd-journal Tainted: G        W  O L 5.5.0-next-20200204+ #6
 Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10/ProLiant DL385 Gen10, BIOS A40 07/10/2019

Both the read and write are done as lockless. Since INC_CACHE_INFO() is
only used for swap_cache_info.find_total and
swap_cache_info.find_success which both are information counters, even
if any of them missed a few incremental due to data races, it will be
harmless, so just mark it as an intentional data race using the
data_race() macro.

While at it, fix a checkpatch.pl warning,

WARNING: Single statement macros should not use a do {} while (0) loop

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
---
 mm/swap_state.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
index 8e7ce9a9bc5e..b964c1391362 100644
--- a/mm/swap_state.c
+++ b/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ static bool enable_vma_readahead __read_mostly = true;
 #define GET_SWAP_RA_VAL(vma)					\
 	(atomic_long_read(&(vma)->swap_readahead_info) ? : 4)
 
-#define INC_CACHE_INFO(x)	do { swap_cache_info.x++; } while (0)
-#define ADD_CACHE_INFO(x, nr)	do { swap_cache_info.x += (nr); } while (0)
+#define INC_CACHE_INFO(x)	data_race(swap_cache_info.x++)
+#define ADD_CACHE_INFO(x, nr)	(swap_cache_info.x += (nr))
 
 static struct {
 	unsigned long add_total;
-- 
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