From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> As KCSAN reported below, this member could be accessed concurrently by two different cpus without lock protection. BUG: KCSAN: data-race in ext4_free_inodes_count / ext4_free_inodes_set write to 0xffff8881029ee00e of 2 bytes by task 3446 on cpu 0: ext4_free_inodes_set+0x1f/0x80 fs/ext4/super.c:405 ext4_free_inode+0x436/0x810 fs/ext4/ialloc.c:323 ext4_evict_inode+0xb20/0xdc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:303 evict+0x1aa/0x410 fs/inode.c:665 iput_final fs/inode.c:1739 [inline] iput+0x42c/0x5c0 fs/inode.c:1765 do_unlinkat+0x282/0x4c0 fs/namei.c:4409 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4450 [inline] __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4448 [inline] __x64_sys_unlink+0x30/0x40 fs/namei.c:4448 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b read to 0xffff8881029ee00e of 2 bytes by task 4984 on cpu 1: ext4_free_inodes_count+0x1c/0x80 fs/ext4/super.c:349 find_group_other fs/ext4/ialloc.c:594 [inline] __ext4_new_inode+0x6eb/0x2270 fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1017 ext4_symlink+0x242/0x590 fs/ext4/namei.c:3396 vfs_symlink+0xc2/0x1a0 fs/namei.c:4484 do_symlinkat+0xe3/0x340 fs/namei.c:4510 __do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4526 [inline] __se_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4523 [inline] __x64_sys_symlinkat+0x62/0x70 fs/namei.c:4523 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b value changed: 0x1855 -> 0x1856 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 1 PID: 4984 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/25/2024 Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 044135796f2b..cf817a6a6e27 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ __u32 ext4_free_group_clusters(struct super_block *sb, __u32 ext4_free_inodes_count(struct super_block *sb, struct ext4_group_desc *bg) { - return le16_to_cpu(bg->bg_free_inodes_count_lo) | + return le16_to_cpu(READ_ONCE(bg->bg_free_inodes_count_lo)) | (EXT4_DESC_SIZE(sb) >= EXT4_MIN_DESC_SIZE_64BIT ? (__u32)le16_to_cpu(bg->bg_free_inodes_count_hi) << 16 : 0); } @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ void ext4_free_group_clusters_set(struct super_block *sb, void ext4_free_inodes_set(struct super_block *sb, struct ext4_group_desc *bg, __u32 count) { - bg->bg_free_inodes_count_lo = cpu_to_le16((__u16)count); + WRITE_ONCE(bg->bg_free_inodes_count_lo, cpu_to_le16((__u16)count)); if (EXT4_DESC_SIZE(sb) >= EXT4_MIN_DESC_SIZE_64BIT) bg->bg_free_inodes_count_hi = cpu_to_le16(count >> 16); } -- 2.37.3