This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled r8169: fix the KCSAN reported data-race in rtl_tx while reading TxDescArray[entry].opts1 to the 6.5-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: r8169-fix-the-kcsan-reported-data-race-in-rtl_tx-whi.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7b075c9b3a126c8497c28f47eed506f927c5ac00 Author: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 18 21:34:36 2023 +0200 r8169: fix the KCSAN reported data-race in rtl_tx while reading TxDescArray[entry].opts1 [ Upstream commit dcf75a0f6bc136de94e88178ae5f51b7f879abc9 ] KCSAN reported the following data-race: ================================================================== BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rtl8169_poll (drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c:4368 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c:4581) r8169 race at unknown origin, with read to 0xffff888140d37570 of 4 bytes by interrupt on cpu 21: rtl8169_poll (drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c:4368 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c:4581) r8169 __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6527) net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:6596 net/core/dev.c:6727) __do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:553) __irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:427 kernel/softirq.c:632) irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:647) sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1074 (discriminator 14)) asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:645) cpuidle_enter_state (drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c:291) cpuidle_enter (drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c:390) call_cpuidle (kernel/sched/idle.c:135) do_idle (kernel/sched/idle.c:219 kernel/sched/idle.c:282) cpu_startup_entry (kernel/sched/idle.c:378 (discriminator 1)) start_secondary (arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:210 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:294) secondary_startup_64_no_verify (arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:433) value changed: 0xb0000042 -> 0x00000000 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 21 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/21 Tainted: G L 6.6.0-rc2-kcsan-00143-gb5cbe7c00aa0 #41 Hardware name: ASRock X670E PG Lightning/X670E PG Lightning, BIOS 1.21 04/26/2023 ================================================================== The read side is in drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c ========================================= 4355 static void rtl_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct rtl8169_private *tp, 4356 int budget) 4357 { 4358 unsigned int dirty_tx, bytes_compl = 0, pkts_compl = 0; 4359 struct sk_buff *skb; 4360 4361 dirty_tx = tp->dirty_tx; 4362 4363 while (READ_ONCE(tp->cur_tx) != dirty_tx) { 4364 unsigned int entry = dirty_tx % NUM_TX_DESC; 4365 u32 status; 4366 → 4367 status = le32_to_cpu(tp->TxDescArray[entry].opts1); 4368 if (status & DescOwn) 4369 break; 4370 4371 skb = tp->tx_skb[entry].skb; 4372 rtl8169_unmap_tx_skb(tp, entry); 4373 4374 if (skb) { 4375 pkts_compl++; 4376 bytes_compl += skb->len; 4377 napi_consume_skb(skb, budget); 4378 } 4379 dirty_tx++; 4380 } 4381 4382 if (tp->dirty_tx != dirty_tx) { 4383 dev_sw_netstats_tx_add(dev, pkts_compl, bytes_compl); 4384 WRITE_ONCE(tp->dirty_tx, dirty_tx); 4385 4386 netif_subqueue_completed_wake(dev, 0, pkts_compl, bytes_compl, 4387 rtl_tx_slots_avail(tp), 4388 R8169_TX_START_THRS); 4389 /* 4390 * 8168 hack: TxPoll requests are lost when the Tx packets are 4391 * too close. Let's kick an extra TxPoll request when a burst 4392 * of start_xmit activity is detected (if it is not detected, 4393 * it is slow enough). -- FR 4394 * If skb is NULL then we come here again once a tx irq is 4395 * triggered after the last fragment is marked transmitted. 4396 */ 4397 if (READ_ONCE(tp->cur_tx) != dirty_tx && skb) 4398 rtl8169_doorbell(tp); 4399 } 4400 } tp->TxDescArray[entry].opts1 is reported to have a data-race and READ_ONCE() fixes this KCSAN warning. 4366 → 4367 status = le32_to_cpu(READ_ONCE(tp->TxDescArray[entry].opts1)); 4368 if (status & DescOwn) 4369 break; 4370 Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: nic_swsd@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/dc7fc8fa-4ea4-e9a9-30a6-7c83e6b53188@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c index 281aaa8518472..7e14a1d958c8e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c @@ -4364,7 +4364,7 @@ static void rtl_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct rtl8169_private *tp, unsigned int entry = dirty_tx % NUM_TX_DESC; u32 status; - status = le32_to_cpu(tp->TxDescArray[entry].opts1); + status = le32_to_cpu(READ_ONCE(tp->TxDescArray[entry].opts1)); if (status & DescOwn) break;