This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm/swap_state: fix a data race in swapin_nr_pages to the 4.14-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: mm-swap_state-fix-a-data-race-in-swapin_nr_pages.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f8ee1db6b6aa263747553d71e1160d5c7d6c15a1 Author: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> Date: Mon Jun 1 21:48:40 2020 -0700 mm/swap_state: fix a data race in swapin_nr_pages [ Upstream commit d6c1f098f2a7ba62627c9bc17cda28f534ef9e4a ] "prev_offset" is a static variable in swapin_nr_pages() that can be accessed concurrently with only mmap_sem held in read mode as noticed by KCSAN, BUG: KCSAN: data-race in swap_cluster_readahead / swap_cluster_readahead write to 0xffffffff92763830 of 8 bytes by task 14795 on cpu 17: swap_cluster_readahead+0x2a6/0x5e0 swapin_readahead+0x92/0x8dc do_swap_page+0x49b/0xf20 __handle_mm_fault+0xcfb/0xd70 handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0 do_page_fault+0x263/0x715 page_fault+0x34/0x40 1 lock held by (dnf)/14795: #0: ffff897bd2e98858 (&mm->mmap_sem#2){++++}-{3:3}, at: do_page_fault+0x143/0x715 do_user_addr_fault at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1405 (inlined by) do_page_fault at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1535 irq event stamp: 83493 count_memcg_event_mm+0x1a6/0x270 count_memcg_event_mm+0x119/0x270 __do_softirq+0x365/0x589 irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0 read to 0xffffffff92763830 of 8 bytes by task 1 on cpu 22: swap_cluster_readahead+0xfd/0x5e0 swapin_readahead+0x92/0x8dc do_swap_page+0x49b/0xf20 __handle_mm_fault+0xcfb/0xd70 handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0 do_page_fault+0x263/0x715 page_fault+0x34/0x40 1 lock held by systemd/1: #0: ffff897c38f14858 (&mm->mmap_sem#2){++++}-{3:3}, at: do_page_fault+0x143/0x715 irq event stamp: 43530289 count_memcg_event_mm+0x1a6/0x270 count_memcg_event_mm+0x119/0x270 __do_softirq+0x365/0x589 irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0 Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200402213748.2237-1-cai@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c index 755be95d52f9c..3ceea86818bd4 100644 --- a/mm/swap_state.c +++ b/mm/swap_state.c @@ -524,10 +524,11 @@ static unsigned long swapin_nr_pages(unsigned long offset) return 1; hits = atomic_xchg(&swapin_readahead_hits, 0); - pages = __swapin_nr_pages(prev_offset, offset, hits, max_pages, + pages = __swapin_nr_pages(READ_ONCE(prev_offset), offset, hits, + max_pages, atomic_read(&last_readahead_pages)); if (!hits) - prev_offset = offset; + WRITE_ONCE(prev_offset, offset); atomic_set(&last_readahead_pages, pages); return pages;