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From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: paulmck@kernel.org,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	 syzbot <syzbot+b7c3ba8cdc2f6cf83c21@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	 Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tty: tty_io: remove hung_up_tty_fops
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 16:14:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANpmjNNo_jyTPrgPVCeSfgvsX-fK8x0H81zbBA6LZMVNodO6GA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whTakjVGgBC5OtoZ5Foo=hd4-g+NZ79nkMDVj6Ug7ARKQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 1 May 2024 at 23:06, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2024 at 13:15, Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is relatively trivial:
> >
> > #ifdef __SANITIZE_THREAD__
> > #define __data_racy volatile
> > #endif
>
> I really wouldn't want to make a code generation difference, but I
> guess when the sanitizer is on, the compiler generating crap code
> isn't a huge deal.
>
> > In some cases it might cause the compiler to complain if converting a
> > volatile pointer to a non-volatile pointer
>
> No. Note that it's not the *pointer* that is volatile, it's the
> structure member.
>
> So it would be something like
>
>         const struct file_operations    * __data_racy f_op;
>
> and only the load of f_op would be volatile - not the pointer itself.
>
> Of course, if somebody then does "&file->f_op" to get a pointer to a
> pointer, *that* would now be a volatile pointer, but I don't see
> people doing that.

This is the case I thought of. I still think everything is working as
intended then, since passing a pointer to a __data_racy variable
should be done with pointers to __data_racy (just like other type
qualifiers - the rules are by virtue of implementation equivalent to
volatile). Not a problem, just an observation.

> So I guess this might be a way forward. Anybody want to verify?

I sent a patch to add the type qualifier - in a simple test I added it
does what we want:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240502141242.2765090-1-elver@google.com/T/#u

I'll leave it to Tetsuo to amend the original patch if __data_racy makes sense.

Thanks,
-- Marco

> Now, the "hung_up_tty_fops" *do* need to be expanded to have hung up
> ops for every op that is non-NULL in the normal tty ops. That was a
> real bug. We'd also want to add a big comment to the tty fops to make
> sure anybody who adds a new tty f_op member to make sure to populate
> the hung up version too.
>
>                 Linus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-02 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-21  8:18 [syzbot] [kernel?] KCSAN: data-race in __fput / __tty_hangup (4) syzbot
2023-04-21  8:21 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2023-04-21 15:12   ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-04-21 16:02     ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-04-23 23:34     ` Al Viro
2023-04-23 23:55       ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-04-24  0:44         ` Al Viro
2023-04-24  1:09           ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-04-25 14:47             ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-04-25 16:03               ` Al Viro
2023-04-25 22:09                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-04-26 11:05                   ` [PATCH] tty: tty_io: remove hung_up_tty_fops Tetsuo Handa
2023-04-28 16:27                     ` Nathan Chancellor
2023-04-28 16:41                       ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-04-28 17:11                         ` Al Viro
2023-04-29 10:43                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-04-28 17:31                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-04-29 15:21                           ` Guenter Roeck
2023-05-01 18:42                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-05-14  1:02                     ` [PATCH v2] " Tetsuo Handa
2023-05-30 10:44                       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-05-30 11:57                         ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-05-30 12:51                           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-27  6:20                             ` [PATCH v3] " Tetsuo Handa
2024-04-27 19:02                               ` Linus Torvalds
2024-04-28 10:19                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2024-04-28 18:50                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2024-04-29 13:55                                     ` Marco Elver
2024-04-29 15:38                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-01 18:45                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-01 18:56                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-01 19:02                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-01 20:14                                               ` Marco Elver
2024-05-01 21:06                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-01 21:20                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-01 21:49                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-01 22:32                                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-02 16:37                                                         ` Boqun Feng
2024-05-03 23:59                                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-04  0:14                                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-04  5:08                                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-04 17:50                                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-04 18:18                                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-04 19:11                                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-04 19:25                                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-04 22:17                                                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-04 22:04                                                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-02 14:14                                                   ` Marco Elver [this message]
2024-05-02 16:42                                                     ` Tetsuo Handa
2024-05-02 17:20                                                       ` Marco Elver
2024-05-02 17:29                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-02 18:14                                                         ` Al Viro
2024-05-02 19:29                                                           ` Marco Elver
2024-05-02 23:54                                                         ` Tetsuo Handa
2024-05-03  1:12                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2023-04-23 13:28   ` [syzbot] [kernel?] KCSAN: data-race in __fput / __tty_hangup (4) Tetsuo Handa
2023-04-23 14:00     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-04-23 14:03     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-04-23 14:17       ` Tetsuo Handa

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