pipe_poll() runs locklessly and assigns 1 to poll_usage. Once poll_usage
is set to 1, it never changes in other places. However, concurrent writes
of a value trigger KCSAN, so let's make KCSAN happy.
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in pipe_poll / pipe_poll
write to 0xffff8880042f6678 of 4 bytes by task 174 on cpu 3:
pipe_poll (fs/pipe.c:656)
ep_item_poll.isra.0 (./include/linux/poll.h:88 fs/eventpoll.c:853)
do_epoll_wait (fs/eventpoll.c:1692 fs/eventpoll.c:1806 fs/eventpoll.c:2234)
__x64_sys_epoll_wait (fs/eventpoll.c:2246 fs/eventpoll.c:2241 fs/eventpoll.c:2241)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:113)
write to 0xffff8880042f6678 of 4 bytes by task 177 on cpu 1:
pipe_poll (fs/pipe.c:656)
ep_item_poll.isra.0 (./include/linux/poll.h:88 fs/eventpoll.c:853)
do_epoll_wait (fs/eventpoll.c:1692 fs/eventpoll.c:1806 fs/eventpoll.c:2234)
__x64_sys_epoll_wait (fs/eventpoll.c:2246 fs/eventpoll.c:2241 fs/eventpoll.c:2241)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:113)
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 177 Comm: epoll_race Not tainted 5.17.0-58927-gf443e374ae13 #6
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.0-2.amzn2 04/01/2014
Fixes: 3b844826b6c6 ("pipe: avoid unnecessary EPOLLET wakeups under normal loads")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Note that the message is false positive for now, so the Fixes tag might not
be necessary.
---
fs/pipe.c | 2 +-
include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 9648ac151..e9f8290f8 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ pipe_poll(struct file *filp, poll_table *wait)
unsigned int head, tail;
/* Epoll has some historical nasty semantics, this enables them */
- pipe->poll_usage = 1;
+ WRITE_ONCE(pipe->poll_usage, true);
/*
* Reading pipe state only -- no need for acquiring the semaphore.
diff --git a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
index c00c618ef..cb0fd633a 100644
--- a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
+++ b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ struct pipe_inode_info {
unsigned int files;
unsigned int r_counter;
unsigned int w_counter;
- unsigned int poll_usage;
+ bool poll_usage;
struct page *tmp_page;
struct fasync_struct *fasync_readers;
struct fasync_struct *fasync_writers;
--
2.30.2
