From: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: fix data race in PagePoisoned() PagePoisoned() accesses page->flags which can be updated concurrently: | BUG: KCSAN: data-race in next_uptodate_page / unlock_page | | write (marked) to 0xffffea00050f37c0 of 8 bytes by task 1872 on cpu 1: | instrument_atomic_write include/linux/instrumented.h:87 [inline] | clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-lock.h:74 [inline] | unlock_page+0x102/0x1b0 mm/filemap.c:1465 | filemap_map_pages+0x6c6/0x890 mm/filemap.c:3057 | ... | read to 0xffffea00050f37c0 of 8 bytes by task 1873 on cpu 0: | PagePoisoned include/linux/page-flags.h:204 [inline] | PageReadahead include/linux/page-flags.h:382 [inline] | next_uptodate_page+0x456/0x830 mm/filemap.c:2975 | ... | CPU: 0 PID: 1873 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 5.11.0-rc4-00001-gf9ce0be71d1f #1 To avoid the compiler tearing or otherwise optimizing the access, use READ_ONCE() to access flags. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210826144157.GA26950@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210913113542.2658064-1-elver@xxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/page-flags.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h~mm-fix-data-race-in-pagepoisoned +++ a/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static __always_inline int PageCompound( #define PAGE_POISON_PATTERN -1l static inline int PagePoisoned(const struct page *page) { - return page->flags == PAGE_POISON_PATTERN; + return READ_ONCE(page->flags) == PAGE_POISON_PATTERN; } #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM _