On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 10:24:18AM +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote: > Meanwhile, I examined the 5.12.17 by naked eye, and found a suspicious place > that could possibly trigger that problem: > > struct swap_info_struct *get_swap_device(swp_entry_t entry) > { > struct swap_info_struct *si; > unsigned long offset; > > if (!entry.val) > goto out; > si = swp_swap_info(entry); > if (!si) > goto bad_nofile; > > rcu_read_lock(); > if (data_race(!(si->flags & SWP_VALID))) > goto unlock_out; > offset = swp_offset(entry); > if (offset >= si->max) > goto unlock_out; > > return si; > bad_nofile: > pr_err("%s: %s%08lx\n", __func__, Bad_file, entry.val); > out: > return NULL; > unlock_out: > rcu_read_unlock(); > return NULL; > } > I guess the function "return si" without a rcu_read_unlock. Yes, but the caller is supposed to call put_swap_device() which calls rcu_read_unlock(). See commit eb085574a752.