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") Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 26c76b13ad23..e5dd8fa51463 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1696,7 +1696,8 @@ 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 page *page; + struct swap_info_struct *si; + struct page *page = NULL; 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; + } /* 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