Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm/shmem: fix shmem_swapin() race with swapoff

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On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 3:54 AM Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 26c76b13ad23..2dafd65b0b42 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 (!si) {
> +               error = EINVAL;
> +               goto failed;
> +       }

page is uninitialized?

>         /* Look it up and read it in.. */
>         page = lookup_swap_cache(swap, NULL, 0);
>         if (!page) {
> @@ -1765,6 +1772,8 @@ static int shmem_swapin_page(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
>         swap_free(swap);
>
>         *pagep = page;
> +       if (si)
> +               put_swap_device(si);
>         return 0;
>  failed:
>         if (!shmem_confirm_swap(mapping, index, swap))
> @@ -1775,6 +1784,9 @@ static int shmem_swapin_page(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
>                 put_page(page);
>         }
>
> +       if (si)
> +               put_swap_device(si);
> +
>         return error;
>  }
>
> --
> 2.23.0
>
>




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