Re: [PATCH] locking/osq_lock: fix a data race in osq_wait_next

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:38:51PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:

> If possible, decode and get the line numbers. I have observed a data
> race in osq_lock before, however, this is the only one I have recently
> seen in osq_lock:
> 
> read to 0xffff88812c12d3d4 of 4 bytes by task 23304 on cpu 0:
>  osq_lock+0x170/0x2f0 kernel/locking/osq_lock.c:143
> 
> 	while (!READ_ONCE(node->locked)) {
> 		/*
> 		 * If we need to reschedule bail... so we can block.
> 		 * Use vcpu_is_preempted() to avoid waiting for a preempted
> 		 * lock holder:
> 		 */
> -->		if (need_resched() || vcpu_is_preempted(node_cpu(node->prev)))
> 			goto unqueue;
> 
> 		cpu_relax();
> 	}
> 
> where
> 
> 	static inline int node_cpu(struct optimistic_spin_node *node)
> 	{
> -->		return node->cpu - 1;
> 	}
> 
> 
> write to 0xffff88812c12d3d4 of 4 bytes by task 23334 on cpu 1:
>  osq_lock+0x89/0x2f0 kernel/locking/osq_lock.c:99
> 
> 	bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock)
> 	{
> 		struct optimistic_spin_node *node = this_cpu_ptr(&osq_node);
> 		struct optimistic_spin_node *prev, *next;
> 		int curr = encode_cpu(smp_processor_id());
> 		int old;
> 
> 		node->locked = 0;
> 		node->next = NULL;
> -->		node->cpu = curr;
> 

Yeah, that's impossible. This store happens before the node is
published, so no matter how the load in node_cpu() is shattered, it must
observe the right value.