linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/4] maple_tree: Fix a potential concurrency bug in RCU mode

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Message-Id: <20230310140848.94485-4-zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Mar 2023 22:08:46 +0800
From:   Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@...edance.com>
To:     Liam.Howlett@...cle.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org,
        Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@...edance.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] maple_tree: Fix a potential concurrency bug in RCU mode

There is a concurrency bug that may cause the wrong value to be loaded
when a CPU is modifying the maple tree.

CPU1:
mtree_insert_range()
  mas_insert()
    mas_store_root()
      ...
      mas_root_expand()
        ...
        rcu_assign_pointer(mas->tree->ma_root, mte_mk_root(mas->node));
        ma_set_meta(node, maple_leaf_64, 0, slot);    <---IP

CPU2:
mtree_load()
  mtree_lookup_walk()
    ma_data_end();

When CPU1 is about to execute the instruction pointed to by IP,
the ma_data_end() executed by CPU2 may return the wrong end position,
which will cause the value loaded by mtree_load() to be wrong.

An example of triggering the bug:

Add mdelay(100) between rcu_assign_pointer() and ma_set_meta() in
mas_root_expand().

static DEFINE_MTREE(tree);
int work(void *p) {
	unsigned long val;
	for (int i = 0 ; i< 30; ++i) {
		val = (unsigned long)mtree_load(&tree, 8);
		mdelay(5);
		pr_info("%lu",val);
	}
	return 0;
}

mt_init_flags(&tree, MT_FLAGS_USE_RCU);
mtree_insert(&tree, 0, (void*)12345, GFP_KERNEL);
run_thread(work)
mtree_insert(&tree, 1, (void*)56789, GFP_KERNEL);

In RCU mode, mtree_load() should always return the value before or after
the data structure is modified, and in this example mtree_load(&tree, 8)
may return 56789 which is not expected, it should always return NULL.
Fix it by put ma_set_meta() before rcu_assign_pointer().

Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@...edance.com>
---
 lib/maple_tree.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/maple_tree.c b/lib/maple_tree.c
index 4d15202a0692..de43ff19da72 100644
--- a/lib/maple_tree.c
+++ b/lib/maple_tree.c
@@ -3635,10 +3635,9 @@ static inline int mas_root_expand(struct ma_state *mas, void *entry)
 		slot++;
 	mas->depth = 1;
 	mas_set_height(mas);
-
+	ma_set_meta(node, maple_leaf_64, 0, slot);
 	/* swap the new root into the tree */
 	rcu_assign_pointer(mas->tree->ma_root, mte_mk_root(mas->node));
-	ma_set_meta(node, maple_leaf_64, 0, slot);
 	return slot;
 }
 
-- 
2.20.1