On 10/25/21 10:03 AM, Marco Elver wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 17:40, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 10/25/21 8:29 AM, Marco Elver wrote: >>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 15:36, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> [...] >>>>> write to 0xffffe8ffffd145b8 of 4 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1: >>>>> sbitmap_queue_clear+0xca/0xf0 lib/sbitmap.c:606 >>>>> blk_mq_put_tag+0x82/0x90 >>>>> __blk_mq_free_request+0x114/0x180 block/blk-mq.c:507 >>>>> blk_mq_free_request+0x2c8/0x340 block/blk-mq.c:541 >>>>> __blk_mq_end_request+0x214/0x230 block/blk-mq.c:565 >>>>> blk_mq_end_request+0x37/0x50 block/blk-mq.c:574 >>>>> lo_complete_rq+0xca/0x170 drivers/block/loop.c:541 >>>>> blk_complete_reqs block/blk-mq.c:584 [inline] >>>>> blk_done_softirq+0x69/0x90 block/blk-mq.c:589 >>>>> __do_softirq+0x12c/0x26e kernel/softirq.c:558 >>>>> run_ksoftirqd+0x13/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:920 >>>>> smpboot_thread_fn+0x22f/0x330 kernel/smpboot.c:164 >>>>> kthread+0x262/0x280 kernel/kthread.c:319 >>>>> ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 >>>>> >>>>> write to 0xffffe8ffffd145b8 of 4 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0: >>>>> sbitmap_queue_clear+0xca/0xf0 lib/sbitmap.c:606 >>>>> blk_mq_put_tag+0x82/0x90 >>>>> __blk_mq_free_request+0x114/0x180 block/blk-mq.c:507 >>>>> blk_mq_free_request+0x2c8/0x340 block/blk-mq.c:541 >>>>> __blk_mq_end_request+0x214/0x230 block/blk-mq.c:565 >>>>> blk_mq_end_request+0x37/0x50 block/blk-mq.c:574 >>>>> lo_complete_rq+0xca/0x170 drivers/block/loop.c:541 >>>>> blk_complete_reqs block/blk-mq.c:584 [inline] >>>>> blk_done_softirq+0x69/0x90 block/blk-mq.c:589 >>>>> __do_softirq+0x12c/0x26e kernel/softirq.c:558 >>>>> run_ksoftirqd+0x13/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:920 >>>>> smpboot_thread_fn+0x22f/0x330 kernel/smpboot.c:164 >>>>> kthread+0x262/0x280 kernel/kthread.c:319 >>>>> ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 >>>> >>>> This is just a per-cpu alloc hint, it's racy by nature. What's the >>>> preferred way to silence these? >>> >>> That was my guess, but couldn't quite say. We started looking at >>> write/write races as more likely to be harmful (vs. just read/write), >>> and are inclined to let syzbot send out more of such reports. Marking >>> intentional ones would be ideal so we'll be left with the >>> unintentional ones. >>> >>> I would probably use WRITE_ONCE(), just to make sure the compiler >>> doesn't play games here; or if the code is entirely tolerant to even >>> the compiler miscompiling things, wrap the thing in data_race(). >> >> It's entirely tolerant, so something like this would do it? > > Yup, looks reasonable, > > Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> OK thanks, I'll queue it up for 5.16. -- Jens Axboe