KCSAN report there's a data race risk while using nr_threads.
But according to the comment above it:
'
/*
* If multiple threads are within copy_process(), then this check
* triggers too late. This doesn't hurt, the check is only there
* to stop root fork bombs.
*/
'
The concurrency problem is not care. And we needn't to use READ_ONCE/atomic/etc
to protect it. Meanwhile 'max_threads' is a sysctl variable which can
be modified concurrently while being read, we can use
'data_race(nr_threads >= max_threads)' to mark both of then.
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in copy_process / copy_process
write to 0xffffffff86205cf8 of 4 bytes by task 14779 on cpu 1:
copy_process+0x2eba/0x3c40 kernel/fork.c:2273
_do_fork+0xfe/0x7a0 kernel/fork.c:2421
__do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2576 [inline]
__se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2557 [inline]
__x64_sys_clone+0x130/0x170 kernel/fork.c:2557
do_syscall_64+0xcc/0x3a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:294
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
read to 0xffffffff86205cf8 of 4 bytes by task 6944 on cpu 0:
copy_process+0x94d/0x3c40 kernel/fork.c:1954
_do_fork+0xfe/0x7a0 kernel/fork.c:2421
__do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2576 [inline]
__se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2557 [inline]
__x64_sys_clone+0x130/0x170 kernel/fork.c:2557
do_syscall_64+0xcc/0x3a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:294
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/syzkaller-upstream-mo
deration/thvp7AHs5Ew/aPdYLXfYBQAJ
Reported-by: syzbot+52fced2d288f8ecd2...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Qian Cai <c...@lca.pw>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brau...@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <el...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lize...@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <chenweil...@huawei.com>
---
kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 63c8fb2f5ca7..caa9c1f27444 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
* to stop root fork bombs.
*/
retval = -EAGAIN;
- if (nr_threads >= max_threads)
+ if (data_race(nr_threads >= max_threads))
goto bad_fork_cleanup_count;
delayacct_tsk_init(p); /* Must remain after dup_task_struct() */
--
2.17.1
