This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: add a READ_ONCE() in skb_peek_tail() to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-add-a-read_once-in-skb_peek_tail.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d29fb490a11c0644f44f9655802bb2dc1f237d68 Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 7 18:49:43 2019 -0800 net: add a READ_ONCE() in skb_peek_tail() [ Upstream commit f8cc62ca3e660ae3fdaee533b1d554297cd2ae82 ] skb_peek_tail() can be used without protection of a lock, as spotted by KCSAN [1] In order to avoid load-stearing, add a READ_ONCE() Note that the corresponding WRITE_ONCE() are already there. [1] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in sk_wait_data / skb_queue_tail read to 0xffff8880b36a4118 of 8 bytes by task 20426 on cpu 1: skb_peek_tail include/linux/skbuff.h:1784 [inline] sk_wait_data+0x15b/0x250 net/core/sock.c:2477 kcm_wait_data+0x112/0x1f0 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1103 kcm_recvmsg+0xac/0x320 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1130 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:871 [inline] sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:889 [inline] sock_recvmsg+0x92/0xb0 net/socket.c:885 ___sys_recvmsg+0x1a0/0x3e0 net/socket.c:2480 do_recvmmsg+0x19a/0x5c0 net/socket.c:2601 __sys_recvmmsg+0x1ef/0x200 net/socket.c:2680 __do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2703 [inline] __se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2696 [inline] __x64_sys_recvmmsg+0x89/0xb0 net/socket.c:2696 do_syscall_64+0xcc/0x370 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 write to 0xffff8880b36a4118 of 8 bytes by task 451 on cpu 0: __skb_insert include/linux/skbuff.h:1852 [inline] __skb_queue_before include/linux/skbuff.h:1958 [inline] __skb_queue_tail include/linux/skbuff.h:1991 [inline] skb_queue_tail+0x7e/0xc0 net/core/skbuff.c:3145 kcm_queue_rcv_skb+0x202/0x310 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:206 kcm_rcv_strparser+0x74/0x4b0 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:370 __strp_recv+0x348/0xf50 net/strparser/strparser.c:309 strp_recv+0x84/0xa0 net/strparser/strparser.c:343 tcp_read_sock+0x174/0x5c0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1639 strp_read_sock+0xd4/0x140 net/strparser/strparser.c:366 do_strp_work net/strparser/strparser.c:414 [inline] strp_work+0x9a/0xe0 net/strparser/strparser.c:423 process_one_work+0x3d4/0x890 kernel/workqueue.c:2269 worker_thread+0xa0/0x800 kernel/workqueue.c:2415 kthread+0x1d4/0x200 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1253 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 0 PID: 451 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3+ #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Workqueue: kstrp strp_work Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index 80c3da1aa8b1..25407c206e73 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -1669,7 +1669,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *skb_peek_next(struct sk_buff *skb, */ static inline struct sk_buff *skb_peek_tail(const struct sk_buff_head *list_) { - struct sk_buff *skb = list_->prev; + struct sk_buff *skb = READ_ONCE(list_->prev); if (skb == (struct sk_buff *)list_) skb = NULL; @@ -1737,7 +1737,9 @@ static inline void __skb_insert(struct sk_buff *newsk, struct sk_buff *prev, struct sk_buff *next, struct sk_buff_head *list) { - /* see skb_queue_empty_lockless() for the opposite READ_ONCE() */ + /* See skb_queue_empty_lockless() and skb_peek_tail() + * for the opposite READ_ONCE() + */ WRITE_ONCE(newsk->next, next); WRITE_ONCE(newsk->prev, prev); WRITE_ONCE(next->prev, newsk);