Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: Enable KCSAN

[Marco Elver]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 at 11:16, Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
> > CPU: 7 PID: 2530 Comm: syz-executor.11 Not tainted 5.10.0+ #113
> > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.104/01/2014
> > ==================================================================
> > BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rwsem_spin_on_owner+0xf4/0x180
> >
> > race at unknown origin, with read to 0xffff9767d3becfac of 4 bytes by task 18119 on cpu 0:
> >  rwsem_spin_on_owner+0xf4/0x180
> >  rwsem_optimistic_spin+0x48/0x480
> >  rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x4a0/0x670
> >  down_read+0x69/0x190
> >  process_vm_rw+0x41e/0x840
> >  __x64_sys_process_vm_writev+0x76/0x90
> >  do_syscall_64+0x37/0x50
> >  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[...]
> I actually have a "fix" for the data race in rwsem_spin_on_owner, that
> also shows where the other racing access comes from... which reminds me:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202101238.33546-1-elver@xxxxxxxxxx

Reading be hard ... that patch is for mutex_spin_on_owner. But the
other racing access is the same.

Thanks,
-- Marco