This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled maple_tree: fix a potential concurrency bug in RCU mode to the 6.1-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: maple_tree-fix-a-potential-concurrency-bug-in-rcu-mode.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c45ea315a602d45569b08b93e9ab30f6a63a38aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:42:03 +0800 Subject: maple_tree: fix a potential concurrency bug in RCU mode From: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c45ea315a602d45569b08b93e9ab30f6a63a38aa upstream. There is a concurrency bug that may cause the wrong value to be loaded when a CPU is modifying the maple tree. CPU1: mtree_insert_range() mas_insert() mas_store_root() ... mas_root_expand() ... rcu_assign_pointer(mas->tree->ma_root, mte_mk_root(mas->node)); ma_set_meta(node, maple_leaf_64, 0, slot); <---IP CPU2: mtree_load() mtree_lookup_walk() ma_data_end(); When CPU1 is about to execute the instruction pointed to by IP, the ma_data_end() executed by CPU2 may return the wrong end position, which will cause the value loaded by mtree_load() to be wrong. An example of triggering the bug: Add mdelay(100) between rcu_assign_pointer() and ma_set_meta() in mas_root_expand(). static DEFINE_MTREE(tree); int work(void *p) { unsigned long val; for (int i = 0 ; i< 30; ++i) { val = (unsigned long)mtree_load(&tree, 8); mdelay(5); pr_info("%lu",val); } return 0; } mt_init_flags(&tree, MT_FLAGS_USE_RCU); mtree_insert(&tree, 0, (void*)12345, GFP_KERNEL); run_thread(work) mtree_insert(&tree, 1, (void*)56789, GFP_KERNEL); In RCU mode, mtree_load() should always return the value before or after the data structure is modified, and in this example mtree_load(&tree, 8) may return 56789 which is not expected, it should always return NULL. Fix it by put ma_set_meta() before rcu_assign_pointer(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230314124203.91572-4-zhangpeng.00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 54a611b60590 ("Maple Tree: add new data structure") Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/maple_tree.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/lib/maple_tree.c +++ b/lib/maple_tree.c @@ -3654,10 +3654,9 @@ static inline int mas_root_expand(struct slot++; mas->depth = 1; mas_set_height(mas); - + ma_set_meta(node, maple_leaf_64, 0, slot); /* swap the new root into the tree */ rcu_assign_pointer(mas->tree->ma_root, mte_mk_root(mas->node)); - ma_set_meta(node, maple_leaf_64, 0, slot); return slot; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhangpeng.00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/maple_tree-fix-a-potential-concurrency-bug-in-rcu-mode.patch queue-6.1/maple_tree-fix-get-wrong-data_end-in-mtree_lookup_walk.patch