Re: BUG: KCSAN: data-race in add_device_randomness+0x20d/0x290

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 02/15, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>
> void release_task(struct task_struct *p)
> {
> [...]
>         cgroup_release(p);
>
>         write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
>         ptrace_release_task(p);
>         thread_pid = get_pid(p->thread_pid);
>         __exit_signal(p);
> [...]
> }
> static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
> {
> [...]
>        add_device_randomness((const void*) &tsk->se.sum_exec_runtime,
>                              sizeof(unsigned long long));
> [...]
> }
>
> Apparently the data that is being read by add_device_randomness() is
> being modified while it's being read. This would be whatever is in
> `tsk->se.sum_exec_runtime`.
>
> I'm not sure what's happening there, if this is "normal" and the task
> can be scheduled out while exiting, causing the schedule to add to
> sum_exec_runtime, or what.

Yes, this is normal.

The parent can call release_task(child) right after the child has passed
exit_notify(), the exiting child still runs and can be scheduled out until
it does the last schedule from do_task_dead().

Oleg.