In theory, the following race is possible for batched TLB flushing.
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
shrink_page_list()
unmap
zap_pte_range()
flush_tlb_batched_pending()
flush_tlb_mm()
try_to_unmap()
set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
mm->tlb_flush_batched = true
mm->tlb_flush_batched = false
After the TLB is flushed on CPU1 via flush_tlb_mm() and before
mm->tlb_flush_batched is set to false, some PTE is unmapped on CPU0
and the TLB flushing is pended. Then the pended TLB flushing will be
lost. Although both set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending() and
flush_tlb_batched_pending() are called with PTL locked, different PTL
instances may be used.
Because the race window is really small, and the lost TLB flushing
will cause problem only if a TLB entry is inserted before the
unmapping in the race window, the race is only theoretical. But the
fix is simple and cheap too.
Syzbot has reported this too as follows,
==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in flush_tlb_batched_pending / try_to_unmap_one
write to 0xffff8881072cfbbc of 1 bytes by task 17406 on cpu 1:
flush_tlb_batched_pending+0x5f/0x80 mm/rmap.c:691
madvise_free_pte_range+0xee/0x7d0 mm/madvise.c:594
walk_pmd_range mm/pagewalk.c:128 [inline]
walk_pud_range mm/pagewalk.c:205 [inline]
walk_p4d_range mm/pagewalk.c:240 [inline]
walk_pgd_range mm/pagewalk.c:277 [inline]
__walk_page_range+0x981/0x1160 mm/pagewalk.c:379
walk_page_range+0x131/0x300 mm/pagewalk.c:475
madvise_free_single_vma mm/madvise.c:734 [inline]
madvise_dontneed_free mm/madvise.c:822 [inline]
madvise_vma mm/madvise.c:996 [inline]
do_madvise+0xe4a/0x1140 mm/madvise.c:1202
__do_sys_madvise mm/madvise.c:1228 [inline]
__se_sys_madvise mm/madvise.c:1226 [inline]
__x64_sys_madvise+0x5d/0x70 mm/madvise.c:1226
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x44/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
write to 0xffff8881072cfbbc of 1 bytes by task 71 on cpu 0:
set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending mm/rmap.c:636 [inline]
try_to_unmap_one+0x60e/0x1220 mm/rmap.c:1515
rmap_walk_anon+0x2fb/0x470 mm/rmap.c:2301
try_to_unmap+0xec/0x110
shrink_page_list+0xe91/0x2620 mm/vmscan.c:1719
shrink_inactive_list+0x3fb/0x730 mm/vmscan.c:2394
shrink_list mm/vmscan.c:2621 [inline]
shrink_lruvec+0x3c9/0x710 mm/vmscan.c:2940
shrink_node_memcgs+0x23e/0x410 mm/vmscan.c:3129
shrink_node+0x8f6/0x1190 mm/vmscan.c:3252
kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:4022 [inline]
balance_pgdat+0x702/0xd30 mm/vmscan.c:4213
kswapd+0x200/0x340 mm/vmscan.c:4473
kthread+0x2c7/0x2e0 kernel/kthread.c:327
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
value changed: 0x01 -> 0x00
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 PID: 71 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
==================================================================
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+aa5bebed695edaccf0df@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 +-
mm/rmap.c | 15 ++++++++-------
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index c3a6e6209600..789778067db9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ struct mm_struct {
atomic_t tlb_flush_pending;
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
/* See flush_tlb_batched_pending() */
- bool tlb_flush_batched;
+ atomic_t tlb_flush_batched;
#endif
struct uprobes_state uprobes_state;
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 163ac4e6bcee..60902c3cfb4a 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ static void set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm, bool writable)
* before the PTE is cleared.
*/
barrier();
- mm->tlb_flush_batched = true;
+ atomic_inc(&mm->tlb_flush_batched);
/*
* If the PTE was dirty then it's best to assume it's writable. The
@@ -680,15 +680,16 @@ static bool should_defer_flush(struct mm_struct *mm, enum ttu_flags flags)
*/
void flush_tlb_batched_pending(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- if (data_race(mm->tlb_flush_batched)) {
- flush_tlb_mm(mm);
+ int batched = atomic_read(&mm->tlb_flush_batched);
+ if (batched) {
+ flush_tlb_mm(mm);
/*
- * Do not allow the compiler to re-order the clearing of
- * tlb_flush_batched before the tlb is flushed.
+ * If the new TLB flushing is pended during flushing,
+ * leave mm->tlb_flush_batched as is, to avoid to lose
+ * flushing.
*/
- barrier();
- mm->tlb_flush_batched = false;
+ atomic_cmpxchg(&mm->tlb_flush_batched, batched, 0);
}
}
#else
--
2.30.2
