mm/vmalloc: fix data race in show_numa_info()
authorJeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Thu, 8 May 2025 16:56:20 +0000 (01:56 +0900)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 22 May 2025 21:55:36 +0000 (14:55 -0700)
commit5c5f0468d172ddec2e333d738d2a1f85402cf0bc
tree0f9fd168d3007449d9842dc157b7521ef1c4d5f7
parentb65e4b56e9f406f291656b3e92723952c180fbab
mm/vmalloc: fix data race in show_numa_info()

The following data-race was found in show_numa_info():

==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in vmalloc_info_show / vmalloc_info_show

read to 0xffff88800971fe30 of 4 bytes by task 8289 on cpu 0:
 show_numa_info mm/vmalloc.c:4936 [inline]
 vmalloc_info_show+0x5a8/0x7e0 mm/vmalloc.c:5016
 seq_read_iter+0x373/0xb40 fs/seq_file.c:230
 proc_reg_read_iter+0x11e/0x170 fs/proc/inode.c:299
....

write to 0xffff88800971fe30 of 4 bytes by task 8287 on cpu 1:
 show_numa_info mm/vmalloc.c:4934 [inline]
 vmalloc_info_show+0x38f/0x7e0 mm/vmalloc.c:5016
 seq_read_iter+0x373/0xb40 fs/seq_file.c:230
 proc_reg_read_iter+0x11e/0x170 fs/proc/inode.c:299
....

value changed: 0x0000008f -> 0x00000000
==================================================================

According to this report,there is a read/write data-race because
m->private is accessible to multiple CPUs.  To fix this, instead of
allocating the heap in proc_vmalloc_init() and passing the heap address to
m->private, vmalloc_info_show() should allocate the heap.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250508165620.15321-1-aha310510@gmail.com
Fixes: 8e1d743f2c26 ("mm: vmalloc: support multiple nodes in vmallocinfo")
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c