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[-next] mm/rmap: annotate a data race at tlb_flush_batched

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Series [-next] mm/rmap: annotate a data race at tlb_flush_batched | expand

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Qian Cai Feb. 11, 2020, 7:53 p.m. UTC 
mm->tlb_flush_batched could be accessed concurrently as noticed by
KCSAN,

 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in flush_tlb_batched_pending / try_to_unmap_one

 write to 0xffff93f754880bd0 of 1 bytes by task 822 on cpu 6:
  try_to_unmap_one+0x59a/0x1ab0
  set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending at mm/rmap.c:635
  (inlined by) try_to_unmap_one at mm/rmap.c:1538
  rmap_walk_anon+0x296/0x650
  rmap_walk+0xdf/0x100
  try_to_unmap+0x18a/0x2f0
  shrink_page_list+0xef6/0x2870
  shrink_inactive_list+0x316/0x880
  shrink_lruvec+0x8dc/0x1380
  shrink_node+0x317/0xd80
  balance_pgdat+0x652/0xd90
  kswapd+0x396/0x8d0
  kthread+0x1e0/0x200
  ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50

 read to 0xffff93f754880bd0 of 1 bytes by task 6364 on cpu 4:
  flush_tlb_batched_pending+0x29/0x90
  flush_tlb_batched_pending at mm/rmap.c:682
  change_p4d_range+0x5dd/0x1030
  change_pte_range at mm/mprotect.c:44
  (inlined by) change_pmd_range at mm/mprotect.c:212
  (inlined by) change_pud_range at mm/mprotect.c:240
  (inlined by) change_p4d_range at mm/mprotect.c:260
  change_protection+0x222/0x310
  change_prot_numa+0x3e/0x60
  task_numa_work+0x219/0x350
  task_work_run+0xed/0x140
  prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x2cc/0x2e0
  ret_from_intr+0x32/0x42

 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
 CPU: 4 PID: 6364 Comm: mtest01 Tainted: G        W    L 5.5.0-next-20200210+ #5
 Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10/ProLiant DL385 Gen10, BIOS A40 07/10/2019

flush_tlb_batched_pending() is under PTL but the write is not, but
mm->tlb_flush_batched is only a bool type, so the value is unlikely to
be shattered. Thus, mark it as an intentional data race by using the
data race macro.

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
---
 mm/rmap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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Patch

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index b3e381919835..6983f5d5b114 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@  static bool should_defer_flush(struct mm_struct *mm, enum ttu_flags flags)
  */
 void flush_tlb_batched_pending(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
-	if (mm->tlb_flush_batched) {
+	if (data_race(mm->tlb_flush_batched)) {
 		flush_tlb_mm(mm);
 
 		/*