From d3863210464f69c18615cbe400d48a6e53e770d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chengfeng Ye Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:24:33 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm/ksm: mark migration stores with WRITE_ONCE() ksm_get_folio() deliberately samples stable_node->kpfn and folio->mapping without taking the folio lock because the KSM folio may be migrated concurrently. folio_migrate_ksm() updates the same state using plain assignments. The reader can load the old kpfn, then the migrator can store the new kpfn, execute smp_wmb(), and clear the old folio's mapping before the reader checks that mapping. Thus the initial kpfn load can overlap its update and the subsequent mapping load can overlap the clear, with no common lock. This leaves marked READ_ONCE() accesses racing with plain stores. The kernel reported: BUG: KCSAN: data-race in folio_migrate_ksm / ksm_get_folio read (marked) to 0xffff8ce401421330 of 8 bytes by task 48 on cpu 3: ksm_get_folio+0x7f/0x2a0 ksm_scan_thread+0x1635/0x3330 kthread+0x1af/0x1f0 write to 0xffff8ce401421330 of 8 bytes by task 102 on cpu 1: folio_migrate_ksm+0x6a/0xd0 folio_migrate_flags+0x193/0x420 __migrate_folio.isra.0+0x162/0x1a0 migrate_folio+0x4c/0x70 move_to_new_folio+0xd6/0x170 Use WRITE_ONCE() for both stores to pair them with the existing lockless reads. This preserves the existing smp_wmb()/smp_rmb() migration protocol and control flow while preventing compiler transformations of the shared accesses. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260824112433.191301-1-nicoyip.dev@gmail.com Fixes: c8d6553b9580 ("ksm: make KSM page migration possible") Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Xu Xin Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: --- mm/ksm.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index 49d48d1e0998..fe42c17490b8 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -1115,7 +1115,8 @@ static inline void folio_set_stable_node(struct folio *folio, struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node) { VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_anon(folio) && PageAnonExclusive(&folio->page), folio); - folio->mapping = (void *)((unsigned long)stable_node | FOLIO_MAPPING_KSM); + WRITE_ONCE(folio->mapping, + (void *)((unsigned long)stable_node | FOLIO_MAPPING_KSM)); } #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS @@ -3316,7 +3317,7 @@ void folio_migrate_ksm(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *folio) stable_node = folio_stable_node(folio); if (stable_node) { VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(stable_node->kpfn != folio_pfn(folio), folio); - stable_node->kpfn = folio_pfn(newfolio); + WRITE_ONCE(stable_node->kpfn, folio_pfn(newfolio)); /* * newfolio->mapping was set in advance; now we need smp_wmb() * to make sure that the new stable_node->kpfn is visible