[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20200220125618.o2p6be2hjfgatynw@box>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:56:18 +0300
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Cc: paulmck@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, elver@...gle.com,
peterz@...radead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v2] fork: annotate a data race in vm_area_dup()
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 09:28:15AM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
> struct vm_area_struct could be accessed concurrently as noticed by
> KCSAN,
>
> write to 0xffff9cf8bba08ad8 of 8 bytes by task 14263 on cpu 35:
> vma_interval_tree_insert+0x101/0x150:
> rb_insert_augmented_cached at include/linux/rbtree_augmented.h:58
> (inlined by) vma_interval_tree_insert at mm/interval_tree.c:23
> __vma_link_file+0x6e/0xe0
> __vma_link_file at mm/mmap.c:629
> vma_link+0xa2/0x120
> mmap_region+0x753/0xb90
> do_mmap+0x45c/0x710
> vm_mmap_pgoff+0xc0/0x130
> ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x1d1/0x300
> __x64_sys_mmap+0x33/0x40
> do_syscall_64+0x91/0xc44
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>
> read to 0xffff9cf8bba08a80 of 200 bytes by task 14262 on cpu 122:
> vm_area_dup+0x6a/0xe0
> vm_area_dup at kernel/fork.c:362
> __split_vma+0x72/0x2a0
> __split_vma at mm/mmap.c:2661
> split_vma+0x5a/0x80
> mprotect_fixup+0x368/0x3f0
> do_mprotect_pkey+0x263/0x420
> __x64_sys_mprotect+0x51/0x70
> do_syscall_64+0x91/0xc44
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>
> vm_area_dup() blindly copies all fields of original VMA to the new one.
> This includes coping vm_area_struct::shared.rb which is normally
> protected by i_mmap_lock. But this is fine because the read value will
> be overwritten on the following __vma_link_file() under proper
> protection. Thus, mark it as an intentional data race and insert a few
> assertions for the fields that should not be modified concurrently.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
Powered by blists - more mailing lists