The patch titled Subject: mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-shmem-fix-data-race-in-shmem_getattr.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-shmem-fix-data-race-in-shmem_getattr.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr() Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 21:35:58 +0900 I got the following KCSAN report during syzbot testing: ================================================================== BUG: KCSAN: data-race in generic_fillattr / inode_set_ctime_current write to 0xffff888102eb3260 of 4 bytes by task 6565 on cpu 1: inode_set_ctime_to_ts include/linux/fs.h:1638 [inline] inode_set_ctime_current+0x169/0x1d0 fs/inode.c:2626 shmem_mknod+0x117/0x180 mm/shmem.c:3443 shmem_create+0x34/0x40 mm/shmem.c:3497 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3578 [inline] open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3647 [inline] path_openat+0xdbc/0x1f00 fs/namei.c:3883 do_filp_open+0xf7/0x200 fs/namei.c:3913 do_sys_openat2+0xab/0x120 fs/open.c:1416 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1431 [inline] __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline] __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1442 [inline] __x64_sys_openat+0xf3/0x120 fs/open.c:1442 x64_sys_call+0x1025/0x2d60 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:258 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x54/0x120 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e read to 0xffff888102eb3260 of 4 bytes by task 3498 on cpu 0: inode_get_ctime_nsec include/linux/fs.h:1623 [inline] inode_get_ctime include/linux/fs.h:1629 [inline] generic_fillattr+0x1dd/0x2f0 fs/stat.c:62 shmem_getattr+0x17b/0x200 mm/shmem.c:1157 vfs_getattr_nosec fs/stat.c:166 [inline] vfs_getattr+0x19b/0x1e0 fs/stat.c:207 vfs_statx_path fs/stat.c:251 [inline] vfs_statx+0x134/0x2f0 fs/stat.c:315 vfs_fstatat+0xec/0x110 fs/stat.c:341 __do_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:505 [inline] __se_sys_newfstatat+0x58/0x260 fs/stat.c:499 __x64_sys_newfstatat+0x55/0x70 fs/stat.c:499 x64_sys_call+0x141f/0x2d60 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:263 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x54/0x120 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e value changed: 0x2755ae53 -> 0x27ee44d3 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3498 Comm: udevd Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-syzkaller-00326-gd1f2d51b711a-dirty #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/06/2024 ================================================================== Since there is no special protection when shmem_getattr() calls generic_fillattr(), data-race occurs by functions such as shmem_unlink() or shmem_mknod(). This can cause unexpected results, so commenting it out is not enough. Therefore, when calling generic_fillattr() from shmem_getattr(), it is appropriate to protect the inode using inode_lock_shared() and inode_unlock_shared() to prevent data-race. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240909123558.70229-1-aha310510@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: 44a30220bc0a ("shmem: recalculate file inode when fstat") Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmem-fix-data-race-in-shmem_getattr +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -1166,7 +1166,9 @@ static int shmem_getattr(struct mnt_idma stat->attributes_mask |= (STATX_ATTR_APPEND | STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE | STATX_ATTR_NODUMP); + inode_lock_shared(inode); generic_fillattr(idmap, request_mask, inode, stat); + inode_unlock_shared(inode); if (shmem_huge_global_enabled(inode, 0, 0, false, NULL, 0)) stat->blksize = HPAGE_PMD_SIZE; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aha310510@xxxxxxxxx are mm-migrate-annotate-data-race-in-migrate_folio_unmap.patch mm-percpu-fix-typo-to-pcpu_alloc_noprof-description.patch mm-shmem-fix-data-race-in-shmem_getattr.patch