Without this modification, a core will wait (mostly)
'swap_info_struct->lock' when completing
'del_from_avail_list(p)'. Immediately, other cores
soon calling 'add_to_avail_list()' to add the same
object again when acquiring the lock that released
by former. It's not the desired result but exists
indeed. This case can be described as below:
core 0 core 1
swapoff
del_from_avail_list(p) waiting
try lock p->lock acquire swap_avail_lock and
add p into swap_avail_head again
acquire p->lock but
missing p already be
added again, and continuing
to clear SWP_WRITEOK, etc.
It can be easily found a massive warning messages can
be triggered inside get_swap_pages() by some special
cases, for example, we call madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) on
blocks of touched memory concurrently, meanwhile, run
much swapon-swapoff operations (e.g. stress-ng-swap).
But, a worse consequence, panic also can be caused by
the above scene. In swapoff(), p, refers to one
swap_info_struct variable, maybe reinsert swap_avail_head
by 'reinsert_swap_info', or as we wanted, turns off this
swap block successfully. the worse case is that swapoff()
run the last code of function but the p still linked in
swap_avail_head[]. It has very bad effects, such as the
memory used by p could be kept in swap_info[], this means
reuse it will destroy the data. A panic message caused:
(with CONFIG_PLIST_DEBUG enabled)
------------[ cut here ]------------
top: ffff001800875c00, n: ffff001800fdc6e0, p: ffff001800fdc6e0
prev: ffff001800875c00, n: ffff001800fdc6e0, p: ffff001800fdc6e0
next: ffff001800fdc6e0, n: ffff001800fdc6e0, p: ffff001800fdc6e0
WARNING: CPU: 21 PID: 1843 at lib/plist.c:60 plist_check_prev_next_node+0x50/0x70
Modules linked in: rfkill(E) crct10dif_ce(E)...
CPU: 21 PID: 1843 Comm: stress-ng Kdump: ... 5.10.134+
Hardware name: Alibaba Cloud ECS, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
pc : plist_check_prev_next_node+0x50/0x70
lr : plist_check_prev_next_node+0x50/0x70
sp : ffff0018009d3c30
x29: ffff0018009d3c40 x28: ffff800011b32a98
x27: 0000000000000000 x26: ffff001803908000
x25: ffff8000128ea088 x24: ffff800011b32a48
x23: 0000000000000028 x22: ffff001800875c00
x21: ffff800010f9e520 x20: ffff001800875c00
x19: ffff001800fdc6e0 x18: 0000000000000030
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
x15: 0736076307640766 x14: 0730073007380731
x13: 0736076307640766 x12: 0730073007380731
x11: 000000000004058d x10: 0000000085a85b76
x9 : ffff8000101436e4 x8 : ffff800011c8ce08
x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : ffff0017df9ed338 x4 : 0000000000000001
x3 : ffff8017ce62a000 x2 : ffff0017df9ed340
x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
plist_check_prev_next_node+0x50/0x70
plist_check_head+0x80/0xf0
plist_add+0x28/0x140
add_to_avail_list+0x9c/0xf0
_enable_swap_info+0x78/0xb4
__do_sys_swapon+0x918/0xa10
__arm64_sys_swapon+0x20/0x30
el0_svc_common+0x8c/0x220
do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x90
el0_svc+0x1c/0x30
el0_sync_handler+0xa8/0xb0
el0_sync+0x148/0x180
irq event stamp: 2082270
In this patch, we lock p->lock before calling
'del_from_avail_list()' to make sure other thread
see the swap_info_struct object had been deleted
and SWP_WRITEOK cleared together, will not reinsert
again.
We also find this problem exists in stable 5.10.
Signed-off-by: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 5af6b0f770de..4df77fef50b5 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2610,8 +2610,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
goto out_dput;
}
- del_from_avail_list(p);
+ /*
+ * Here lock is used to protect deleting and SWP_WRITEOK clearing
+ * can be seen concurrently.
+ */
spin_lock(&p->lock);
+ del_from_avail_list(p);
if (p->prio < 0) {
struct swap_info_struct *si = p;
int nid;
--
2.27.0
