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authorItai Handler <itai.handler@gmail.com>2026-07-23 10:41:38 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2026-07-30 11:21:14 -0700
commit27d73e81195b395270117ff77c47be2ed9b09b12 (patch)
treeb3080c0a4f14d6076b1c5602f08e796e2c9b69c1
parent7f28a4c8f3f723a3b99cc59425e906b429108c48 (diff)
rcu: Mark accesses to ->rcu_urgent_qs and ->rcu_need_heavy_qs
rcu_all_qs() and rcu_note_context_switch() read/clear the per-CPU ->rcu_urgent_qs and ->rcu_need_heavy_qs flags with plain raw_cpu_read() and this_cpu_write(), while the RCU core clears them with WRITE_ONCE() in rcu_disable_urgency_upon_qs(). KCSAN flags the resulting same-CPU race: BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rcu_all_qs / rcu_disable_urgency_upon_qs It is benign -- the flags are advisory and rcu_all_qs() re-reads ->rcu_urgent_qs with smp_load_acquire() before acting on it -- but these are the last unmarked accesses to the two flags; every other access already uses READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()/smp_*. Mark them to match. No functional change. Reproduced on a PREEMPT_NONE, CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER=y kernel with a pthreads program whose threads (two per CPU) loop reading a large file: for (;;) { int fd = open("/proc/kallsyms", O_RDONLY); while (read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) > 0) ; close(fd); } The read()s drive cond_resched() -> rcu_all_qs() while the busy CPUs keep the grace period urgent, so the RCU core clears the flags concurrently. Fixes: 2dba13f0b6c2 ("rcu: Switch urgent quiescent-state requests to rcu_data structure") Signed-off-by: Itai Handler <itai.handler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 353effac5a37..844a9ced67cc 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -996,7 +996,7 @@ void rcu_all_qs(void)
{
unsigned long flags;
- if (!raw_cpu_read(rcu_data.rcu_urgent_qs))
+ if (!READ_ONCE(*raw_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data.rcu_urgent_qs)))
return;
preempt_disable(); // For CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y kernels
/* Load rcu_urgent_qs before other flags. */
@@ -1004,8 +1004,8 @@ void rcu_all_qs(void)
preempt_enable();
return;
}
- this_cpu_write(rcu_data.rcu_urgent_qs, false);
- if (unlikely(raw_cpu_read(rcu_data.rcu_need_heavy_qs))) {
+ WRITE_ONCE(*this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data.rcu_urgent_qs), false);
+ if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(*this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data.rcu_need_heavy_qs)))) {
local_irq_save(flags);
rcu_momentary_eqs();
local_irq_restore(flags);
@@ -1025,8 +1025,8 @@ void rcu_note_context_switch(bool preempt)
/* Load rcu_urgent_qs before other flags. */
if (!smp_load_acquire(this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data.rcu_urgent_qs)))
goto out;
- this_cpu_write(rcu_data.rcu_urgent_qs, false);
- if (unlikely(raw_cpu_read(rcu_data.rcu_need_heavy_qs)))
+ WRITE_ONCE(*this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data.rcu_urgent_qs), false);
+ if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(*this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data.rcu_need_heavy_qs))))
rcu_momentary_eqs();
out:
rcu_tasks_qs(current, preempt);