Re: [syzbot] [fs?] [mm?] KCSAN: data-race in xas_create / xas_find (8)

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On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 at 08:40, Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov <snovitoll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 11:08 AM syzbot
> <syzbot+b79be83906cd9bab16ff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > syzbot found the following issue on:
> >
> > HEAD commit:    2f91ff27b0ee Merge tag 'sound-6.12-rc2' of git://git.kerne..
> > git tree:       upstream
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=155c879f980000
> > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=95098faba89c70c9
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b79be83906cd9bab16ff
> > compiler:       Debian clang version 15.0.6, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
> >
> > Downloadable assets:
> > disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/14933c4ac457/disk-2f91ff27.raw.xz
> > vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/6725831fc1a1/vmlinux-2f91ff27.xz
> > kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/98d64e038e72/bzImage-2f91ff27.xz
> >
> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+b79be83906cd9bab16ff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > loop4: detected capacity change from 0 to 4096
> > EXT4-fs: Ignoring removed nobh option
> > EXT4-fs: Ignoring removed i_version option
> > ==================================================================
> > BUG: KCSAN: data-race in xas_create / xas_find
> >
> > write to 0xffff888106819919 of 1 bytes by task 3435 on cpu 0:
> >  xas_expand lib/xarray.c:613 [inline]
> >  xas_create+0x666/0xbd0 lib/xarray.c:654
> >  xas_store+0x6f/0xc90 lib/xarray.c:788
>
> AFAIU, xas_store() itself, doesn't have a locking mechanism,
> but is locked in xa_* functions. Example:
>
> void *xa_store_range(...)
> {
>    XA_STATE(xas, xa, 0);
>    ...
>    do {
>       xas_lock(&xas);
>       if (entry) {
>       ...
>          xas_create(&xas, true);
>    }
> ...
> unlock:
>    xas_unlock(&xas);
> }
>
> Same thing is for the another racing xas_find() function:
>
> void *xa_find(...)
> {
>    XA_STATE(xas, xa, *indexp);
>    void *entry;
>    rcu_read_lock();
>    do {
>       if (...)
>          entry = xas_find_marked(&xas, max, filter);
>       else
>          entry = xas_find(&xas, max);
>       ...
>    rcu_read_unlock();
> }
>
> In this KCSAN report, xas_create() and xas_find() are racing for `offset` field.

If you search the mailing list archives, there are several such
reports: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230914080811.465zw662sus4uznq@quack3/
And have all been deemed benign.

The code might benefit from markings, per:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/memory-model/Documentation/access-marking.txt

But that's entirely up to the maintainer's preference:
https://lwn.net/Articles/816854/





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