On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 03:39:23PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2019, syzbot wrote: > > ================================================================== > > BUG: KCSAN: data-race in fat16_ent_put / fat_search_long > > > > write to 0xffff8880a209c96a of 2 bytes by task 11985 on cpu 0: > > fat16_ent_put+0x5b/0x90 fs/fat/fatent.c:181 > > fat_ent_write+0x6d/0xf0 fs/fat/fatent.c:415 > > fat_chain_add+0x34e/0x400 fs/fat/misc.c:130 > > fat_add_cluster+0x92/0xd0 fs/fat/inode.c:112 > > __fat_get_block fs/fat/inode.c:154 [inline] > > fat_get_block+0x3ae/0x4e0 fs/fat/inode.c:189 > > __block_write_begin_int+0x2ea/0xf20 fs/buffer.c:1968 > > __block_write_begin fs/buffer.c:2018 [inline] > > block_write_begin+0x77/0x160 fs/buffer.c:2077 > > cont_write_begin+0x3d6/0x670 fs/buffer.c:2426 > > fat_write_begin+0x72/0xc0 fs/fat/inode.c:235 > > pagecache_write_begin+0x6b/0x90 mm/filemap.c:3148 > > cont_expand_zero fs/buffer.c:2353 [inline] > > cont_write_begin+0x17a/0x670 fs/buffer.c:2416 > > fat_write_begin+0x72/0xc0 fs/fat/inode.c:235 > > pagecache_write_begin+0x6b/0x90 mm/filemap.c:3148 > > generic_cont_expand_simple+0xb0/0x120 fs/buffer.c:2317 > > > > read to 0xffff8880a209c96b of 1 bytes by task 11990 on cpu 1: > > fat_search_long+0x20a/0xc60 fs/fat/dir.c:484 > > vfat_find+0xc1/0xd0 fs/fat/namei_vfat.c:698 > > vfat_lookup+0x75/0x350 fs/fat/namei_vfat.c:712 > > lookup_open fs/namei.c:3203 [inline] > > do_last fs/namei.c:3314 [inline] > > path_openat+0x15b6/0x36e0 fs/namei.c:3525 > > do_filp_open+0x11e/0x1b0 fs/namei.c:3555 > > do_sys_open+0x3b3/0x4f0 fs/open.c:1097 > > __do_sys_open fs/open.c:1115 [inline] > > __se_sys_open fs/open.c:1110 [inline] > > __x64_sys_open+0x55/0x70 fs/open.c:1110 > > do_syscall_64+0xcc/0x370 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290 > > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 > > > > Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: > > CPU: 1 PID: 11990 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3+ #0 > > Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS > > Google 01/01/2011 > > ================================================================== > > I was trying to understand what is happening here, but fail to see how > this can happen. So it'd be good if somebody who knows this code can > explain. We are quite positive this is not a false positive, given the > addresses accessed match. Both of these accesses are into a buffer head; ie the data being accessed is stored in the page cache. Is it possible the page was reused for different data between these two accesses? > The two bits of code in question here are: > > static void fat16_ent_put(struct fat_entry *fatent, int new) > { > if (new == FAT_ENT_EOF) > new = EOF_FAT16; > > *fatent->u.ent16_p = cpu_to_le16(new); <<== data race here > mark_buffer_dirty_inode(fatent->bhs[0], fatent->fat_inode); > } > > int fat_search_long(struct inode *inode, const unsigned char *name, > int name_len, struct fat_slot_info *sinfo) > { > struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; > struct msdos_sb_info *sbi = MSDOS_SB(sb); > struct buffer_head *bh = NULL; > struct msdos_dir_entry *de; > unsigned char nr_slots; > wchar_t *unicode = NULL; > unsigned char bufname[FAT_MAX_SHORT_SIZE]; > loff_t cpos = 0; > int err, len; > > err = -ENOENT; > while (1) { > if (fat_get_entry(inode, &cpos, &bh, &de) == -1) > goto end_of_dir; > parse_record: > nr_slots = 0; > if (de->name[0] == DELETED_FLAG) > continue; > if (de->attr != ATTR_EXT && (de->attr & ATTR_VOLUME)) <<== data race here > continue; > if (de->attr != ATTR_EXT && IS_FREE(de->name)) > continue; > <snip> > } > > Thanks, > -- Marco