Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:43:23 +0200 | Subject | Re: BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rtl8169_poll | From | Mirsad Todorovac <> |
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On 9/18/23 09:41, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 8:15 AM Mirsad Todorovac > <mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> In the vanilla torvalds tree kernel on Ubuntu 22.04, commit 6.6.0-rc1-kcsan-00269-ge789286468a9, >> KCSAN discovered a data-race in rtl8169_poll(): >> >> [ 9591.740976] ================================================================== >> [ 9591.740990] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rtl8169_poll (drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c:4430 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c:4583) r8169 >> >> [ 9591.741060] race at unknown origin, with read to 0xffff888109773130 of 4 bytes by interrupt on cpu 21: >> [ 9591.741073] rtl8169_poll (drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c:4430 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c:4583) r8169 >> [ 9591.741135] __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6527) >> [ 9591.741149] net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:6596 net/core/dev.c:6727) >> [ 9591.741161] __do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:553) >> [ 9591.741175] __irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:427 kernel/softirq.c:632) >> [ 9591.741185] irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:647) >> [ 9591.741194] common_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:247 (discriminator 14)) >> [ 9591.741206] asm_common_interrupt (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:636) >> [ 9591.741217] cpuidle_enter_state (drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c:291) >> [ 9591.741227] cpuidle_enter (drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c:390) >> [ 9591.741237] call_cpuidle (kernel/sched/idle.c:135) >> [ 9591.741249] do_idle (kernel/sched/idle.c:219 kernel/sched/idle.c:282) >> [ 9591.741259] cpu_startup_entry (kernel/sched/idle.c:378 (discriminator 1)) >> [ 9591.741268] start_secondary (arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:210 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:294) >> [ 9591.741281] secondary_startup_64_no_verify (arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:433) >> >> [ 9591.741300] value changed: 0x80003fff -> 0x34044510 >> >> [ 9591.741314] Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: >> [ 9591.741322] CPU: 21 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/21 Tainted: G L 6.6.0-rc1-kcsan-00269-ge789286468a9-dirty #4 >> [ 9591.741334] Hardware name: ASRock X670E PG Lightning/X670E PG Lightning, BIOS 1.21 04/26/2023 >> [ 9591.741343] ================================================================== >> >> (The taint is not from the proprietary module, but triggered from the previous reported and unfixed bug.) >> >> Apparently, it is this code: >> >> static int rtl8169_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) >> { >> struct rtl8169_private *tp = container_of(napi, struct rtl8169_private, napi); >> struct net_device *dev = tp->dev; >> int work_done; >> >> rtl_tx(dev, tp, budget); >> >> → work_done = rtl_rx(dev, tp, budget); >> >> if (work_done < budget && napi_complete_done(napi, work_done)) >> rtl_irq_enable(tp); >> >> return work_done; >> } >> >> and >> >> static int rtl_rx(struct net_device *dev, struct rtl8169_private *tp, int budget) >> { >> struct device *d = tp_to_dev(tp); >> int count; >> >> for (count = 0; count < budget; count++, tp->cur_rx++) { >> unsigned int pkt_size, entry = tp->cur_rx % NUM_RX_DESC; >> struct RxDesc *desc = tp->RxDescArray + entry; >> struct sk_buff *skb; >> const void *rx_buf; >> dma_addr_t addr; >> u32 status; >> >> → status = le32_to_cpu(desc->opts1); >> if (status & DescOwn) >> break; >> >> /* This barrier is needed to keep us from reading >> * any other fields out of the Rx descriptor until >> * we know the status of DescOwn >> */ >> dma_rmb(); >> >> if (unlikely(status & RxRES)) { >> . >> . >> . >> >> The reason isn't obvious, so it might be interesting if this is a valid report and whether it caused spurious corruption >> of the network data on Realtek 8169 compatible cards ... >> > > I think this is pretty much expected. > > Driver reads a piece of memory that the hardware can modify. > > Adding data_race() annotations could avoid these false positives. > >> Hope this helps. >> >> Best regards, >> Mirsad Todorovac
Well, another approach was this quick fix that eliminated all those rtl8169_poll() KCSAN warnings.
If READ_ONCE(desc->opts1) fixed it, then maybe there is more to this than meets the eye?
------------------------------------------------- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c index 6351a2dc13bc..051551ee2a15 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c @@ -4427,7 +4427,7 @@ static int rtl_rx(struct net_device *dev, struct rtl8169_private *tp, int budget dma_addr_t addr; u32 status; - status = le32_to_cpu(desc->opts1); + status = le32_to_cpu(READ_ONCE(desc->opts1)); if (status & DescOwn) break;
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