[PATCH] mm/mempool: fix a data race in mempool_free()

[Qian Cai]

mempool_t pool.curr_nr could be accessed concurrently as noticed by
KCSAN,

 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in mempool_free / remove_element

 write to 0xffffffffa937638c of 4 bytes by task 6359 on cpu 113:
  remove_element+0x4a/0x1c0
  remove_element at mm/mempool.c:132
  mempool_alloc+0x102/0x210
  (inlined by) mempool_alloc at mm/mempool.c:399
  bio_alloc_bioset+0x106/0x2c0
  get_swap_bio+0x49/0x230
  __swap_writepage+0x680/0xc30
  swap_writepage+0x9c/0xf0
  pageout+0x33e/0xae0
  shrink_page_list+0x1f57/0x2870
  shrink_inactive_list+0x316/0x880
  shrink_lruvec+0x8dc/0x1380
  shrink_node+0x317/0xd80
  do_try_to_free_pages+0x1f7/0xa10
  try_to_free_pages+0x26c/0x5e0
  __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x458/0x1290
  <snip>

 read to 0xffffffffa937638c of 4 bytes by interrupt on cpu 64:
  mempool_free+0x3e/0x150
  mempool_free at mm/mempool.c:492
  bio_free+0x192/0x280
  bio_put+0x91/0xd0
  end_swap_bio_write+0x1d8/0x280
  bio_endio+0x2c2/0x5b0
  dec_pending+0x22b/0x440 [dm_mod]
  clone_endio+0xe4/0x2c0 [dm_mod]
  bio_endio+0x2c2/0x5b0
  blk_update_request+0x217/0x940
  scsi_end_request+0x6b/0x4d0
  scsi_io_completion+0xb7/0x7e0
  scsi_finish_command+0x223/0x310
  scsi_softirq_done+0x1d5/0x210
  blk_mq_complete_request+0x224/0x250
  scsi_mq_done+0xc2/0x250
  pqi_raid_io_complete+0x5a/0x70 [smartpqi]
  pqi_irq_handler+0x150/0x1410 [smartpqi]
  __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x90/0x540
  handle_irq_event_percpu+0x49/0xd0
  handle_irq_event+0x85/0xca
  handle_edge_irq+0x13f/0x3e0
  do_IRQ+0x86/0x190
  <snip>

Since the write is under pool->lock but the read is done as lockless.
Even though the commit 5b990546e334 ("mempool: fix and document
synchronization and memory barrier usage") introduced the smp_wmb() and
smp_rmb() pair to improve the situation, it is adequate to protect it
from data races which could lead to a logic bug, so fix it by adding
READ_ONCE() for the read.

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
---
 mm/mempool.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index 85efab3da720..79bff63ecf27 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ void mempool_free(void *element, mempool_t *pool)
 	 * ensures that there will be frees which return elements to the
 	 * pool waking up the waiters.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr)) {
+	if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(pool->curr_nr) < pool->min_nr)) {
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
 		if (likely(pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr)) {
 			add_element(pool, element);
-- 
1.8.3.1