The pgdat->kswapd could be accessed concurrently by kswapd_run() and kcompactd(), it don't be protected by any lock, which could leads to data races, adding READ/WRITE_ONCE() to slince it. Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/compaction.c | 4 +++- mm/vmscan.c | 8 ++++---- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 640fa76228dd..aa1cfe47f046 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -1983,7 +1983,9 @@ static inline bool is_via_compact_memory(int order) static bool kswapd_is_running(pg_data_t *pgdat) { - return pgdat->kswapd && task_is_running(pgdat->kswapd); + struct task_struct *t = READ_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd); + + return t && task_is_running(t); } /* diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 08c6497f76c3..65b19ca8c8ee 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -4644,7 +4644,7 @@ void kswapd_run(int nid) pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid); struct task_struct *t; - if (pgdat->kswapd) + if (READ_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd)) return; t = kthread_run(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid); @@ -4653,7 +4653,7 @@ void kswapd_run(int nid) BUG_ON(system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING); pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid); } else { - pgdat->kswapd = t; + WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd, t); } } @@ -4663,11 +4663,11 @@ void kswapd_run(int nid) */ void kswapd_stop(int nid) { - struct task_struct *kswapd = NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd; + struct task_struct *kswapd = READ_ONCE(NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd); if (kswapd) { kthread_stop(kswapd); - NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd = NULL; + WRITE_ONCE(NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd, NULL); } } -- 2.35.3