Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] swap: fix do_swap_page() race with swapoff

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Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> When I was investigating the swap code, I found the below possible race
> window:
>
> CPU 1                                   	CPU 2
> -----                                   	-----
> do_swap_page
>   if (data_race(si->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO)
>   swap_readpage
>     if (data_race(sis->flags & SWP_FS_OPS)) {
>                                         	swapoff
> 					  	  ..
> 					  	  p->swap_file = NULL;
> 					  	  ..
>     struct file *swap_file = sis->swap_file;
>     struct address_space *mapping = swap_file->f_mapping;[oops!]
>
> Note that for the pages that are swapped in through swap cache, this isn't
> an issue. Because the page is locked, and the swap entry will be marked
> with SWAP_HAS_CACHE, so swapoff() can not proceed until the page has been
> unlocked.
>
> Fix this race by using get/put_swap_device() to guard against concurrent
> swapoff.
>
> Fixes: 0bcac06f27d7 ("mm,swap: skip swapcache for swapin of synchronous device")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> (auto build test ERROR)
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> ---
>  include/linux/swap.h |  9 +++++++++
>  mm/memory.c          | 11 +++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
> index c9e7fea10b83..46d51d058d05 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swap.h
> @@ -527,6 +527,15 @@ static inline struct swap_info_struct *swp_swap_info(swp_entry_t entry)
>  	return NULL;
>  }
>  
> +static inline struct swap_info_struct *get_swap_device(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> +	return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void put_swap_device(struct swap_info_struct *si)
> +{
> +}
> +
>  #define swap_address_space(entry)		(NULL)
>  #define get_nr_swap_pages()			0L
>  #define total_swap_pages			0L
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 27014c3bde9f..39c910678387 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3311,6 +3311,7 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  {
>  	struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
>  	struct page *page = NULL, *swapcache;
> +	struct swap_info_struct *si = NULL;
>  	swp_entry_t entry;
>  	pte_t pte;
>  	int locked;
> @@ -3338,14 +3339,16 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Prevent swapoff from happening to us. */
> +	si = get_swap_device(entry);
> +	if (unlikely(!si))
> +		goto out;
>  
>  	delayacct_set_flag(current, DELAYACCT_PF_SWAPIN);
>  	page = lookup_swap_cache(entry, vma, vmf->address);
>  	swapcache = page;
>  
>  	if (!page) {
> -		struct swap_info_struct *si = swp_swap_info(entry);
> -
>  		if (data_race(si->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO) &&
>  		    __swap_count(entry) == 1) {
>  			/* skip swapcache */
> @@ -3514,6 +3517,8 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  unlock:
>  	pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
>  out:
> +	if (si)
> +		put_swap_device(si);
>  	return ret;
>  out_nomap:
>  	pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
> @@ -3525,6 +3530,8 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  		unlock_page(swapcache);
>  		put_page(swapcache);
>  	}
> +	if (si)
> +		put_swap_device(si);
>  	return ret;
>  }




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