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Message-ID: <20200222013143.GP2935@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:31:43 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc: andreyknvl@...gle.com, glider@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com,
kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kcsan: Add option to allow watcher interruptions
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:02:09PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> Add option to allow interrupts while a watchpoint is set up. This can be
> enabled either via CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER or via the boot
> parameter 'kcsan.interrupt_watcher=1'.
>
> Note that, currently not all safe per-CPU access primitives and patterns
> are accounted for, which could result in false positives. For example,
> asm-generic/percpu.h uses plain operations, which by default are
> instrumented. On interrupts and subsequent accesses to the same
> variable, KCSAN would currently report a data race with this option.
>
> Therefore, this option should currently remain disabled by default, but
> may be enabled for specific test scenarios.
>
> To avoid new warnings, changes all uses of smp_processor_id() to use the
> raw version (as already done in kcsan_found_watchpoint()). The exact SMP
> processor id is for informational purposes in the report, and
> correctness is not affected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Applied in place of V1, thank you!
Thanx, Paul
> ---
> v2:
> * Change smp_processor_id() to raw_smp_processor_id() as already used in
> kcsan_found_watchpoint() to avoid warnings.
> ---
> kernel/kcsan/core.c | 34 ++++++++++------------------------
> lib/Kconfig.kcsan | 11 +++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/core.c b/kernel/kcsan/core.c
> index 589b1e7f0f253..e7387fec66795 100644
> --- a/kernel/kcsan/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/kcsan/core.c
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ static bool kcsan_early_enable = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KCSAN_EARLY_ENABLE);
> static unsigned int kcsan_udelay_task = CONFIG_KCSAN_UDELAY_TASK;
> static unsigned int kcsan_udelay_interrupt = CONFIG_KCSAN_UDELAY_INTERRUPT;
> static long kcsan_skip_watch = CONFIG_KCSAN_SKIP_WATCH;
> +static bool kcsan_interrupt_watcher = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER);
>
> #ifdef MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX
> #undef MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX
> @@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ module_param_named(early_enable, kcsan_early_enable, bool, 0);
> module_param_named(udelay_task, kcsan_udelay_task, uint, 0644);
> module_param_named(udelay_interrupt, kcsan_udelay_interrupt, uint, 0644);
> module_param_named(skip_watch, kcsan_skip_watch, long, 0644);
> +module_param_named(interrupt_watcher, kcsan_interrupt_watcher, bool, 0444);
>
> bool kcsan_enabled;
>
> @@ -354,7 +356,7 @@ kcsan_setup_watchpoint(const volatile void *ptr, size_t size, int type)
> unsigned long access_mask;
> enum kcsan_value_change value_change = KCSAN_VALUE_CHANGE_MAYBE;
> unsigned long ua_flags = user_access_save();
> - unsigned long irq_flags;
> + unsigned long irq_flags = 0;
>
> /*
> * Always reset kcsan_skip counter in slow-path to avoid underflow; see
> @@ -370,26 +372,9 @@ kcsan_setup_watchpoint(const volatile void *ptr, size_t size, int type)
> goto out;
> }
>
> - /*
> - * Disable interrupts & preemptions to avoid another thread on the same
> - * CPU accessing memory locations for the set up watchpoint; this is to
> - * avoid reporting races to e.g. CPU-local data.
> - *
> - * An alternative would be adding the source CPU to the watchpoint
> - * encoding, and checking that watchpoint-CPU != this-CPU. There are
> - * several problems with this:
> - * 1. we should avoid stealing more bits from the watchpoint encoding
> - * as it would affect accuracy, as well as increase performance
> - * overhead in the fast-path;
> - * 2. if we are preempted, but there *is* a genuine data race, we
> - * would *not* report it -- since this is the common case (vs.
> - * CPU-local data accesses), it makes more sense (from a data race
> - * detection point of view) to simply disable preemptions to ensure
> - * as many tasks as possible run on other CPUs.
> - *
> - * Use raw versions, to avoid lockdep recursion via IRQ flags tracing.
> - */
> - raw_local_irq_save(irq_flags);
> + if (!kcsan_interrupt_watcher)
> + /* Use raw to avoid lockdep recursion via IRQ flags tracing. */
> + raw_local_irq_save(irq_flags);
>
> watchpoint = insert_watchpoint((unsigned long)ptr, size, is_write);
> if (watchpoint == NULL) {
> @@ -507,7 +492,7 @@ kcsan_setup_watchpoint(const volatile void *ptr, size_t size, int type)
> if (is_assert && value_change == KCSAN_VALUE_CHANGE_TRUE)
> kcsan_counter_inc(KCSAN_COUNTER_ASSERT_FAILURES);
>
> - kcsan_report(ptr, size, type, value_change, smp_processor_id(),
> + kcsan_report(ptr, size, type, value_change, raw_smp_processor_id(),
> KCSAN_REPORT_RACE_SIGNAL);
> } else if (value_change == KCSAN_VALUE_CHANGE_TRUE) {
> /* Inferring a race, since the value should not have changed. */
> @@ -518,13 +503,14 @@ kcsan_setup_watchpoint(const volatile void *ptr, size_t size, int type)
>
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_RACE_UNKNOWN_ORIGIN) || is_assert)
> kcsan_report(ptr, size, type, KCSAN_VALUE_CHANGE_TRUE,
> - smp_processor_id(),
> + raw_smp_processor_id(),
> KCSAN_REPORT_RACE_UNKNOWN_ORIGIN);
> }
>
> kcsan_counter_dec(KCSAN_COUNTER_USED_WATCHPOINTS);
> out_unlock:
> - raw_local_irq_restore(irq_flags);
> + if (!kcsan_interrupt_watcher)
> + raw_local_irq_restore(irq_flags);
> out:
> user_access_restore(ua_flags);
> }
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kcsan b/lib/Kconfig.kcsan
> index f0b791143c6ab..081ed2e1bf7b1 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kcsan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kcsan
> @@ -88,6 +88,17 @@ config KCSAN_SKIP_WATCH_RANDOMIZE
> KCSAN_WATCH_SKIP. If false, the chosen value is always
> KCSAN_WATCH_SKIP.
>
> +config KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER
> + bool "Interruptible watchers"
> + help
> + If enabled, a task that set up a watchpoint may be interrupted while
> + delayed. This option will allow KCSAN to detect races between
> + interrupted tasks and other threads of execution on the same CPU.
> +
> + Currently disabled by default, because not all safe per-CPU access
> + primitives and patterns may be accounted for, and therefore could
> + result in false positives.
> +
> config KCSAN_REPORT_ONCE_IN_MS
> int "Duration in milliseconds, in which any given race is only reported once"
> default 3000
> --
> 2.25.0.265.gbab2e86ba0-goog
>
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