The patch titled Subject: mm/vmscan.c: fix data races using kswapd_classzone_idx has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-vmscan-fix-data-races-at-kswapd_classzone_idx.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-fix-data-races-at-kswapd_classzone_idx.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-fix-data-races-at-kswapd_classzone_idx.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> Subject: mm/vmscan.c: fix data races using kswapd_classzone_idx pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx could be accessed concurrently in wakeup_kswapd(). Plain writes and reads without any lock protection result in data races. Fix them by adding a pair of READ|WRITE_ONCE() as well as saving a branch (compilers might well optimize the original code in an unintentional way anyway). While at it, also take care of pgdat->kswapd_order and non-kswapd threads in allow_direct_reclaim(). The data races were reported by KCSAN, BUG: KCSAN: data-race in wakeup_kswapd / wakeup_kswapd write to 0xffff9f427ffff2dc of 4 bytes by task 7454 on cpu 13: wakeup_kswapd+0xf1/0x400 wakeup_kswapd at mm/vmscan.c:3967 wake_all_kswapds+0x59/0xc0 wake_all_kswapds at mm/page_alloc.c:4241 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xdcc/0x1290 __alloc_pages_slowpath at mm/page_alloc.c:4512 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3bb/0x450 alloc_pages_vma+0x8a/0x2c0 do_anonymous_page+0x16e/0x6f0 __handle_mm_fault+0xcd5/0xd40 handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0 do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9 page_fault+0x34/0x40 1 lock held by mtest01/7454: #0: ffff9f425afe8808 (&mm->mmap_sem#2){++++}, at: do_page_fault+0x143/0x6f9 do_user_addr_fault at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1405 (inlined by) do_page_fault at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1539 irq event stamp: 6944085 count_memcg_event_mm+0x1a6/0x270 count_memcg_event_mm+0x119/0x270 __do_softirq+0x34c/0x57c irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0 read to 0xffff9f427ffff2dc of 4 bytes by task 7472 on cpu 38: wakeup_kswapd+0xc8/0x400 wake_all_kswapds+0x59/0xc0 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xdcc/0x1290 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3bb/0x450 alloc_pages_vma+0x8a/0x2c0 do_anonymous_page+0x16e/0x6f0 __handle_mm_fault+0xcd5/0xd40 handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0 do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9 page_fault+0x34/0x40 1 lock held by mtest01/7472: #0: ffff9f425a9ac148 (&mm->mmap_sem#2){++++}, at: do_page_fault+0x143/0x6f9 irq event stamp: 6793561 count_memcg_event_mm+0x1a6/0x270 count_memcg_event_mm+0x119/0x270 __do_softirq+0x34c/0x57c irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in kswapd / wakeup_kswapd write to 0xffff90973ffff2dc of 4 bytes by task 820 on cpu 6: kswapd+0x27c/0x8d0 kthread+0x1e0/0x200 ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50 read to 0xffff90973ffff2dc of 4 bytes by task 6299 on cpu 0: wakeup_kswapd+0xf3/0x450 wake_all_kswapds+0x59/0xc0 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xdcc/0x1290 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3bb/0x450 alloc_pages_vma+0x8a/0x2c0 do_anonymous_page+0x170/0x700 __handle_mm_fault+0xc9f/0xd00 handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0 do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9 page_fault+0x34/0x40 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1582749472-5171-1-git-send-email-cai@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-fix-data-races-at-kswapd_classzone_idx +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3136,8 +3136,9 @@ static bool allow_direct_reclaim(pg_data /* kswapd must be awake if processes are being throttled */ if (!wmark_ok && waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait)) { - pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = min(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx, - (enum zone_type)ZONE_NORMAL); + if (READ_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx) > ZONE_NORMAL) + WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx, ZONE_NORMAL); + wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kswapd_wait); } @@ -3769,9 +3770,9 @@ out: static enum zone_type kswapd_classzone_idx(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum zone_type prev_classzone_idx) { - if (pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx == MAX_NR_ZONES) - return prev_classzone_idx; - return pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx; + enum zone_type curr_idx = READ_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx); + + return curr_idx == MAX_NR_ZONES ? prev_classzone_idx : curr_idx; } static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int alloc_order, int reclaim_order, @@ -3815,8 +3816,11 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_ * the previous request that slept prematurely. */ if (remaining) { - pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = kswapd_classzone_idx(pgdat, classzone_idx); - pgdat->kswapd_order = max(pgdat->kswapd_order, reclaim_order); + WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx, + kswapd_classzone_idx(pgdat, classzone_idx)); + + if (READ_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order) < reclaim_order) + WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order, reclaim_order); } finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait); @@ -3893,12 +3897,12 @@ static int kswapd(void *p) tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD; set_freezable(); - pgdat->kswapd_order = 0; - pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = MAX_NR_ZONES; + WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order, 0); + WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx, MAX_NR_ZONES); for ( ; ; ) { bool ret; - alloc_order = reclaim_order = pgdat->kswapd_order; + alloc_order = reclaim_order = READ_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order); classzone_idx = kswapd_classzone_idx(pgdat, classzone_idx); kswapd_try_sleep: @@ -3906,10 +3910,10 @@ kswapd_try_sleep: classzone_idx); /* Read the new order and classzone_idx */ - alloc_order = reclaim_order = pgdat->kswapd_order; + alloc_order = reclaim_order = READ_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order); classzone_idx = kswapd_classzone_idx(pgdat, classzone_idx); - pgdat->kswapd_order = 0; - pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = MAX_NR_ZONES; + WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order, 0); + WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx, MAX_NR_ZONES); ret = try_to_freeze(); if (kthread_should_stop()) @@ -3953,20 +3957,23 @@ void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, gf enum zone_type classzone_idx) { pg_data_t *pgdat; + enum zone_type curr_idx; if (!managed_zone(zone)) return; if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(zone, gfp_flags)) return; + pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat; + curr_idx = READ_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx); + + if (curr_idx == MAX_NR_ZONES || curr_idx < classzone_idx) + WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx, classzone_idx); + + if (READ_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order) < order) + WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order, order); - if (pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx == MAX_NR_ZONES) - pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = classzone_idx; - else - pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = max(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx, - classzone_idx); - pgdat->kswapd_order = max(pgdat->kswapd_order, order); if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait)) return; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cai@xxxxxx are mm-swapfile-fix-data-races-in-try_to_unuse.patch mm-vmscan-fix-data-races-at-kswapd_classzone_idx.patch percpu_counter-fix-a-data-race-at-vm_committed_as.patch mm-frontswap-mark-various-intentional-data-races.patch mm-page_io-mark-various-intentional-data-races.patch mm-page_io-mark-various-intentional-data-races-v2.patch mm-swap_state-mark-various-intentional-data-races.patch mm-kmemleak-annotate-various-data-races-obj-ptr.patch mm-swapfile-fix-and-annotate-various-data-races.patch mm-swapfile-fix-and-annotate-various-data-races-v2.patch mm-page_counter-fix-various-data-races-at-memsw.patch mm-memcontrol-fix-a-data-race-in-scan-count.patch mm-list_lru-fix-a-data-race-in-list_lru_count_one.patch mm-mempool-fix-a-data-race-in-mempool_free.patch mm-util-annotate-an-data-race-at-vm_committed_as.patch mm-rmap-annotate-a-data-race-at-tlb_flush_batched.patch mm-annotate-a-data-race-in-page_zonenum.patch