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 6.1-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:
r8169-fix-the-kcsan-reported-data-race-in-rtl_tx-whi.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.
commit 187d6e811b0da6a74a8c76d6a631b7d331313a6e
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 5288daaf59b5b..f677f625a4939 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -4343,7 +4343,7 @@ 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;
