Some architectures use barriers in 'extern inline' functions, from which
we should not refer to static inline functions.
For example, building Alpha with gcc and W=1 shows:
./include/asm-generic/barrier.h:70:30: warning: 'kcsan_rmb' is static but used in inline function 'pmd_offset' which is not static
70 | #define smp_rmb() do { kcsan_rmb(); __smp_rmb(); } while (0)
| ^~~~~~~~~
./arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h:293:9: note: in expansion of macro 'smp_rmb'
293 | smp_rmb(); /* see above */
| ^~~~~~~
Which seems to warn about 6.7.4#3 of the C standard:
"An inline definition of a function with external linkage shall not
contain a definition of a modifiable object with static or thread
storage duration, and shall not contain a reference to an identifier
with internal linkage."
Fix it by turning barrier instrumentation into macros, which matches
definitions in <asm/barrier.h>.
Perhaps we can revert this change in future, when there are no more
'extern inline' users left.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202112041334.X44uWZXf-lkp@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Add the core memory barrier instrumentation functions. These invalidate
the current in-flight reordered access based on the rules for the
respective barrier types and in-flight access type.
To obtain barrier instrumentation that can be disabled via __no_kcsan
with appropriate compiler-support (and not just with objtool help),
barrier instrumentation repurposes __atomic_signal_fence(), instead of
inserting explicit calls. Crucially, __atomic_signal_fence() normally
does not map to any real instructions, but is still intercepted by
fsanitize=thread. As a result, like any other instrumentation done by
the compiler, barrier instrumentation can be disabled with __no_kcsan.
Unfortunately Clang and GCC currently differ in their __no_kcsan aka
__no_sanitize_thread behaviour with respect to builtin atomics (and
__tsan_func_{entry,exit}) instrumentation. This is already reflected in
Kconfig.kcsan's dependencies for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY. A later change will
introduce support for newer versions of Clang that can implement
__no_kcsan to also remove the additional instrumentation introduced by
KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Add support for modeling a subset of weak memory, which will enable
detection of a subset of data races due to missing memory barriers.
KCSAN's approach to detecting missing memory barriers is based on
modeling access reordering, and enabled if `CONFIG_KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY=y`,
which depends on `CONFIG_KCSAN_STRICT=y`. The feature can be enabled or
disabled at boot and runtime via the `kcsan.weak_memory` boot parameter.
Each memory access for which a watchpoint is set up, is also selected
for simulated reordering within the scope of its function (at most 1
in-flight access).
We are limited to modeling the effects of "buffering" (delaying the
access), since the runtime cannot "prefetch" accesses (therefore no
acquire modeling). Once an access has been selected for reordering, it
is checked along every other access until the end of the function scope.
If an appropriate memory barrier is encountered, the access will no
longer be considered for reordering.
When the result of a memory operation should be ordered by a barrier,
KCSAN can then detect data races where the conflict only occurs as a
result of a missing barrier due to reordering accesses.
Suggested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Save the instruction pointer for scoped accesses, so that it becomes
possible for the reporting code to construct more accurate stack traces
that will show the start of the scope.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Adds missing license and/or copyright headers for KCSAN source files.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Add support for compounded read-write instrumentation if supported by
the compiler. Adds the necessary instrumentation functions, and a new
type which is used to generate a more descriptive report.
Furthermore, such compounded memory access instrumentation is excluded
from the "assume aligned writes up to word size are atomic" rule,
because we cannot assume that the compiler emits code that is atomic for
compound ops.
LLVM/Clang added support for the feature in:
785d41a261
The new instrumentation is emitted for sets of memory accesses in the
same basic block to the same address with at least one read appearing
before a write. These typically result from compound operations such as
++, --, +=, -=, |=, &=, etc. but also equivalent forms such as "var =
var + 1". Where the compiler determines that it is equivalent to emit a
call to a single __tsan_read_write instead of separate __tsan_read and
__tsan_write, we can then benefit from improved performance and better
reporting for such access patterns.
The new reports now show that the ops are both reads and writes, for
example:
read-write to 0xffffffff90548a38 of 8 bytes by task 143 on cpu 3:
test_kernel_rmw_array+0x45/0xa0
access_thread+0x71/0xb0
kthread+0x21e/0x240
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
read-write to 0xffffffff90548a38 of 8 bytes by task 144 on cpu 2:
test_kernel_rmw_array+0x45/0xa0
access_thread+0x71/0xb0
kthread+0x21e/0x240
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
One of the kernel-doc markups there have two "note" sections:
./include/linux/kcsan-checks.h:346: warning: duplicate section name 'Note'
While this is not the case here, duplicated sections can cause
build issues on Sphinx. So, let's change the notes section
to use, instead, a list for those 2 notes at the same function.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20f7995fab2ba85ce723203e9a7c822a55cca2af.1592895969.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The __kcsan_{enable,disable}_current() variants only call into KCSAN if
KCSAN is enabled for the current compilation unit. Note: This is
typically not what we want, as we usually want to ensure that even calls
into other functions still have KCSAN disabled.
These variants may safely be used in header files that are shared
between regular kernel code and code that does not link the KCSAN
runtime.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Both affect access checks, and should therefore be in kcsan-checks.h.
This is in preparation to use these in compiler.h.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Introduce ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_*_SCOPED(), which provide an intuitive
interface to use the scoped-access feature, without having to explicitly
mark the start and end of the desired scope. Basing duration of the
checks on scope avoids accidental misuse and resulting false positives,
which may be hard to debug. See added comments for usage.
The macros are implemented using __attribute__((__cleanup__(func))),
which is supported by all compilers that currently support KCSAN.
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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>
This adds support for scoped accesses, where the memory range is checked
for the duration of the scope. The feature is implemented by inserting
the relevant access information into a list of scoped accesses for
the current execution context, which are then checked (until removed)
on every call (through instrumentation) into the KCSAN runtime.
An alternative, more complex, implementation could set up a watchpoint for
the scoped access, and keep the watchpoint set up. This, however, would
require first exposing a handle to the watchpoint, as well as dealing
with cases such as accesses by the same thread while the watchpoint is
still set up (and several more cases). It is also doubtful if this would
provide any benefit, since the majority of delay where the watchpoint
is set up is likely due to the injected delays by KCSAN. Therefore,
the implementation in this patch is simpler and avoids hurting KCSAN's
main use-case (normal data race detection); it also implicitly increases
scoped-access race-detection-ability due to increased probability of
setting up watchpoints by repeatedly calling __kcsan_check_access()
throughout the scope of the access.
The implementation required adding an additional conditional branch to
the fast-path. However, the microbenchmark showed a *speedup* of ~5%
on the fast-path. This appears to be due to subtly improved codegen by
GCC from moving get_ctx() and associated load of preempt_count earlier.
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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>
Update the API documentation for ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_* macros and make them
generate readable documentation for the code examples.
All @variable short summaries were missing ':', which was updated for
the whole file.
Tested with "make htmldocs".
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This introduces ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS(var, mask).
ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS(var, mask) will cause KCSAN to assume that the
following access is safe w.r.t. data races (however, please see the
docbook comment for disclaimer here).
For more context on why this was considered necessary, please see:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1580995070-25139-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw
In particular, before this patch, data races between reads (that use
@mask bits of an access that should not be modified concurrently) and
writes (that change ~@mask bits not used by the readers) would have been
annotated with "data_race()" (or "READ_ONCE()"). However, doing so would
then hide real problems: we would no longer be able to detect harmful
races between reads to @mask bits and writes to @mask bits.
Therefore, by using ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS(var, mask), we accomplish:
1. Avoid proliferation of specific macros at the call sites: by
including a single mask in the argument list, we can use the same
macro in a wide variety of call sites, regardless of how and which
bits in a field each call site actually accesses.
2. The existing code does not need to be modified (although READ_ONCE()
may still be advisable if we cannot prove that the data race is
always safe).
3. We catch bugs where the exclusive bits are modified concurrently.
4. We document properties of the current code.
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>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
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>
This moves functions that affect state changing the behaviour of
kcsan_check_access() to kcsan-checks.h. Since these are likely used with
kcsan_check_access() it makes more sense to have them in kcsan-checks.h,
to avoid including all of 'include/linux/kcsan.h'.
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>
Introduces ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER() and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS(), which
may be used to assert properties of synchronization logic, where
violation cannot be detected as a normal data race.
Examples of the reports that may be generated:
==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: assert: race in test_thread / test_thread
write to 0xffffffffab3d1540 of 8 bytes by task 466 on cpu 2:
test_thread+0x8d/0x111
debugfs_write.cold+0x32/0x44
...
assert no writes to 0xffffffffab3d1540 of 8 bytes by task 464 on cpu 0:
test_thread+0xa3/0x111
debugfs_write.cold+0x32/0x44
...
==================================================================
==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: assert: race in test_thread / test_thread
assert no accesses to 0xffffffffab3d1540 of 8 bytes by task 465 on cpu 1:
test_thread+0xb9/0x111
debugfs_write.cold+0x32/0x44
...
read to 0xffffffffab3d1540 of 8 bytes by task 464 on cpu 0:
test_thread+0x77/0x111
debugfs_write.cold+0x32/0x44
...
==================================================================
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>
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>
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>
Marco Elver
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Ingo Molnar