To avoid deadlock in case watchers can be interrupted, we need to ensure
that producers of the struct other_info can never be blocked by an
unrelated consumer. (Likely to occur with KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER.)
There are several cases that can lead to this scenario, for example:
1. A watchpoint A was set up by task T1, but interrupted by
interrupt I1. Some other thread (task or interrupt) finds
watchpoint A consumes it, and sets other_info. Then I1 also
finds some unrelated watchpoint B, consumes it, but is blocked
because other_info is in use. T1 cannot consume other_info
because I1 never returns -> deadlock.
2. A watchpoint A was set up by task T1, but interrupted by
interrupt I1, which also sets up a watchpoint B. Some other
thread finds watchpoint A, and consumes it and sets up
other_info with its information. Similarly some other thread
finds watchpoint B and consumes it, but is then blocked because
other_info is in use. When I1 continues it sees its watchpoint
was consumed, and that it must wait for other_info, which
currently contains information to be consumed by T1. However, T1
cannot unblock other_info because I1 never returns -> deadlock.
To avoid this, we need to ensure that producers of struct other_info
always have a usable other_info entry. This is obviously not the case
with only a single instance of struct other_info, as concurrent
producers must wait for the entry to be released by some consumer (which
may be locked up as illustrated above).
While it would be nice if producers could simply call kmalloc() and
append their instance of struct other_info to a list, we are very
limited in this code path: since KCSAN can instrument the allocators
themselves, calling kmalloc() could lead to deadlock or corrupted
allocator state.
Since producers of the struct other_info will always succeed at
try_consume_watchpoint(), preceding the call into kcsan_report(), we
know that the particular watchpoint slot cannot simply be reused or
consumed by another potential other_info producer. If we move removal of
a watchpoint after reporting (by the consumer of struct other_info), we
can see a consumed watchpoint as a held lock on elements of other_info,
if we create a one-to-one mapping of a watchpoint to an other_info
element.
Therefore, the simplest solution is to create an array of struct
other_info that is as large as the watchpoints array in core.c, and pass
the watchpoint index to kcsan_report() for producers and consumers, and
change watchpoints to be removed after reporting is done.
With a default config on a 64-bit system, the array other_infos consumes
~37KiB. For most systems today this is not a problem. On smaller memory
constrained systems, the config value CONFIG_KCSAN_NUM_WATCHPOINTS can
be reduced appropriately.
Overall, this change is a simplification of the prepare_report() code,
and makes some of the checks (such as checking if at least one access is
a write) redundant.
Tested:
$ tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh \
--cpus 12 --duration 10 --kconfig "CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y \
CONFIG_KCSAN=y CONFIG_KCSAN_ASSUME_PLAIN_WRITES_ATOMIC=n \
CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_VALUE_CHANGE_ONLY=n \
CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_ONCE_IN_MS=100000 CONFIG_KCSAN_VERBOSE=y \
CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER=y CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y" \
--configs TREE03
=> No longer hangs and runs to completion as expected.
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Improve readability by introducing access_info and other_info structs,
and in preparation of the following commit in this series replaces the
single instance of other_info with an array of size 1.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Adds CONFIG_KCSAN_VERBOSE to optionally enable more verbose reports.
Currently information about the reporting task's held locks and IRQ
trace events are shown, if they are enabled.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Suggested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When setting up an access mask with kcsan_set_access_mask(), KCSAN will
only report races if concurrent changes to bits set in access_mask are
observed. Conveying access_mask via a separate call avoids introducing
overhead in the common-case fast-path.
Acked-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Introduces kcsan_value_change type, which explicitly points out if we
either observed a value-change (TRUE), or we could not observe one but
cannot rule out a value-change happened (MAYBE). The MAYBE state can
either be reported or not, depending on configuration preferences.
A follow-up patch introduces the FALSE state, which should never be
reported.
No functional change intended.
Acked-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The KCSAN_ACCESS_ASSERT access type may be used to introduce dummy reads
and writes to assert certain properties of concurrent code, where bugs
could not be detected as normal data races.
For example, a variable that is only meant to be written by a single
CPU, but may be read (without locking) by other CPUs must still be
marked properly to avoid data races. However, concurrent writes,
regardless if WRITE_ONCE() or not, would be a bug. Using
kcsan_check_access(&x, sizeof(x), KCSAN_ACCESS_ASSERT) would allow
catching such bugs.
To support KCSAN_ACCESS_ASSERT the following notable changes were made:
* If an access is of type KCSAN_ASSERT_ACCESS, disable various filters
that only apply to data races, so that all races that KCSAN observes are
reported.
* Bug reports that involve an ASSERT access type will be reported as
"KCSAN: assert: race in ..." instead of "data-race"; this will help
more easily distinguish them.
* Update a few comments to just mention 'races' where we do not always
mean pure data races.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit adds access-type information to KCSAN's reports as follows:
"read", "read (marked)", "write", and "write (marked)".
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tidy up a few bits:
- Fix typos and grammar, improve wording.
- Remove spurious newlines that are col80 warning artifacts where the
resulting line-break is worse than the disease it's curing.
- Use core kernel coding style to improve readability and reduce
spurious code pattern variations.
- Use better vertical alignment for structure definitions and initialization
sequences.
- Misc other small details.
No change in functionality intended.
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) is a dynamic data-race detector for
kernel space. KCSAN is a sampling watchpoint-based data-race detector.
See the included Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst for more details.
This patch adds basic infrastructure, but does not yet enable KCSAN for
any architecture.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
