When I was investigating the swap code, I found the below possible race window: CPU 1 CPU 2 ----- ----- shmem_swapin swap_cluster_readahead if (likely(si->flags & (SWP_BLKDEV | SWP_FS_OPS))) { swapoff .. si->swap_file = NULL; .. struct inode *inode = si->swap_file->f_mapping->host;[oops!] Close this race window by using get/put_swap_device() to guard against concurrent swapoff. Fixes: 8fd2e0b505d1 ("mm: swap: check if swap backing device is congested or not") Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 26c76b13ad23..be388d0cf8b5 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1696,6 +1696,7 @@ static int shmem_swapin_page(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index, struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping; struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode); struct mm_struct *charge_mm = vma ? vma->vm_mm : current->mm; + struct swap_info_struct *si; struct page *page; swp_entry_t swap; int error; @@ -1704,6 +1705,12 @@ static int shmem_swapin_page(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index, swap = radix_to_swp_entry(*pagep); *pagep = NULL; + /* Prevent swapoff from happening to us. */ + si = get_swap_device(swap); + if (unlikely(!si)) { + error = EINVAL; + goto failed; + } /* Look it up and read it in.. */ page = lookup_swap_cache(swap, NULL, 0); if (!page) { @@ -1720,6 +1727,7 @@ static int shmem_swapin_page(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index, goto failed; } } + put_swap_device(si); /* We have to do this with page locked to prevent races */ lock_page(page); @@ -1775,6 +1783,9 @@ static int shmem_swapin_page(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index, put_page(page); } + if (si) + put_swap_device(si); + return error; } -- 2.19.1