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Paul E. McKenney 74f58f382a rcu: Protect ->defer_qs_iw_pending from data race
[ Upstream commit 90c09d57caeca94e6f3f87c49e96a91edd40cbfd ]

On kernels built with CONFIG_IRQ_WORK=y, when rcu_read_unlock() is
invoked within an interrupts-disabled region of code [1], it will invoke
rcu_read_unlock_special(), which uses an irq-work handler to force the
system to notice when the RCU read-side critical section actually ends.
That end won't happen until interrupts are enabled at the soonest.

In some kernels, such as those booted with rcutree.use_softirq=y, the
irq-work handler is used unconditionally.

The per-CPU rcu_data structure's ->defer_qs_iw_pending field is
updated by the irq-work handler and is both read and updated by
rcu_read_unlock_special().  This resulted in the following KCSAN splat:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler / rcu_read_unlock_special

read to 0xffff96b95f42d8d8 of 1 bytes by task 90 on cpu 8:
 rcu_read_unlock_special+0x175/0x260
 __rcu_read_unlock+0x92/0xa0
 rt_spin_unlock+0x9b/0xc0
 __local_bh_enable+0x10d/0x170
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xfb/0x150
 rcu_do_batch+0x595/0xc40
 rcu_cpu_kthread+0x4e9/0x830
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x24d/0x3b0
 kthread+0x3bd/0x410
 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

write to 0xffff96b95f42d8d8 of 1 bytes by task 88 on cpu 8:
 rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler+0x1e/0x30
 irq_work_single+0xaf/0x160
 run_irq_workd+0x91/0xc0
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x24d/0x3b0
 kthread+0x3bd/0x410
 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

no locks held by irq_work/8/88.
irq event stamp: 200272
hardirqs last  enabled at (200272): [<ffffffffb0f56121>] finish_task_switch+0x131/0x320
hardirqs last disabled at (200271): [<ffffffffb25c7859>] __schedule+0x129/0xd70
softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<ffffffffb0ee093f>] copy_process+0x4df/0x1cc0
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0

------------------------------------------------------------------------

The problem is that irq-work handlers run with interrupts enabled, which
means that rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() could be interrupted,
and that interrupt handler might contain an RCU read-side critical
section, which might invoke rcu_read_unlock_special().  In the strict
KCSAN mode of operation used by RCU, this constitutes a data race on
the ->defer_qs_iw_pending field.

This commit therefore disables interrupts across the portion of the
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() that updates the ->defer_qs_iw_pending
field.  This suffices because this handler is not a fast path.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-08-28 16:21:26 +02:00
arch s390/time: Use monotonic clock in get_cycles() 2025-08-28 16:21:26 +02:00
block block: fix 'kmem_cache of name 'bio-108' already exists' 2025-04-10 14:29:37 +02:00
certs certs/blacklist_hashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2022-06-22 14:11:22 +02:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - fix double free in hash_accept 2025-06-04 14:32:35 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: ACPI: Fix parent device references 2025-08-28 16:21:23 +02:00
drivers net: ag71xx: Add missing check after DMA map 2025-08-28 16:21:26 +02:00
fs hfs: fix not erasing deleted b-tree node issue 2025-08-28 16:21:24 +02:00
include io_uring: don't use int for ABI 2025-08-28 16:21:23 +02:00
init bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2025-07-17 18:24:51 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:02:52 +01:00
kernel rcu: Protect ->defer_qs_iw_pending from data race 2025-08-28 16:21:26 +02:00
lib lib: test_objagg: Set error message in check_expect_hints_stats() 2025-07-17 18:24:56 +02:00
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mm mm/huge_memory: fix dereferencing invalid pmd migration entry 2025-06-27 11:02:58 +01:00
net wifi: cfg80211: reject HTC bit for management frames 2025-08-28 16:21:26 +02:00
samples samples: mei: Fix building on musl libc 2025-08-28 16:21:19 +02:00
scripts kbuild: use -MMD instead of -MD to exclude system headers from dependency 2025-07-17 18:24:51 +02:00
security securityfs: don't pin dentries twice, once is enough... 2025-08-28 16:21:24 +02:00
sound ASoC: codecs: rt5640: Retry DEVICE_ID verification 2025-08-28 16:21:26 +02:00
tools ktest.pl: Prevent recursion of default variable options 2025-08-28 16:21:26 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-07-17 18:24:51 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Ignore PMCNTENSET_EL0 while checking for overflow status 2024-12-19 18:05:04 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
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