Re: KCSAN: data-race in cgroup_rstat_flush_locked / cgroup_rstat_updated
From: Michal Koutný <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-17 16:41:33
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From: Michal Koutný <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-17 16:41:33
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Hello Hao. On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 09:53:55PM +0800, Hao Sun [off-list ref] wrote:
KCSAN reported the following data race during the kernel booting when using Healer to fuzz the latest Linux kernel. [...] cgroup_rstat_cpu_pop_updated kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:139 [inline] [...] cgroup_rstat_updated+0x53/0x1b0 kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:38
FWIW, it's a "safe" race between updaters and flushers (possibly missing the latest update(s)). This is expected as explained in cgroup_rstat_updated() comment. Michal