KCSAN find inode->i_disksize could be accessed concurrently. BUG: KCSAN: data-race in ext4_mark_iloc_dirty / ext4_write_end write (marked) to 0xffff8b8932f40090 of 8 bytes by task 66792 on cpu 0: ext4_write_end+0x53f/0x5b0 ext4_da_write_end+0x237/0x510 generic_perform_write+0x1c4/0x2a0 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x13a/0x210 ext4_file_write_iter+0xe2/0x9b0 new_sync_write+0x29c/0x3a0 __vfs_write+0x92/0xa0 vfs_write+0xfc/0x2a0 ksys_write+0xe8/0x140 __x64_sys_write+0x4c/0x60 do_syscall_64+0x8a/0x2a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 read to 0xffff8b8932f40090 of 8 bytes by task 14414 on cpu 1: ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x716/0x1190 ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0xc9/0x360 ext4_convert_unwritten_extents+0x1bc/0x2a0 ext4_convert_unwritten_io_end_vec+0xc5/0x150 ext4_put_io_end+0x82/0x130 ext4_writepages+0xae7/0x16f0 do_writepages+0x64/0x120 __writeback_single_inode+0x7d/0x650 writeback_sb_inodes+0x3a4/0x860 __writeback_inodes_wb+0xc4/0x150 wb_writeback+0x43f/0x510 wb_workfn+0x3b2/0x8a0 process_one_work+0x39b/0x7e0 worker_thread+0x88/0x650 kthread+0x1d4/0x1f0 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 The plain read is outside of inode->i_data_sem critical section which results in a data race. Fix it by adding READ_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index fa0ff78..c787703 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4982,7 +4982,7 @@ static int ext4_do_update_inode(handle_t *handle, raw_inode->i_file_acl_high = cpu_to_le16(ei->i_file_acl >> 32); raw_inode->i_file_acl_lo = cpu_to_le32(ei->i_file_acl); - if (ei->i_disksize != ext4_isize(inode->i_sb, raw_inode)) { + if (READ_ONCE(ei->i_disksize) != ext4_isize(inode->i_sb, raw_inode)) { ext4_isize_set(raw_inode, ei->i_disksize); need_datasync = 1; } -- 1.8.3.1