From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In the direct swapin path, when two or more threads swapin the same entry
at the same time, they get different pages (A, B) because swap cache is
skipped. Before one thread (T0) finishes the swapin and installs page (A)
to the PTE, another thread (T1) could finish swapin of page (B),
swap_free the entry, then modify and swap-out the page again, using the
same entry. It break the pte_same check because PTE value is unchanged,
causing ABA problem. Then thread (T0) will then install the stalled page
(A) into the PTE so new data in page (B) is lost, one possible callstack
is like this:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
do_swap_page() do_swap_page() with same entry
<direct swapin path> <direct swapin path>
<alloc page A> <alloc page B>
swap_readpage() <- read to page A swap_readpage() <- read to page B
<slow on later locks or interrupt> <finished swapin first>
... set_pte_at()
swap_free() <- Now the entry is freed.
<write to page B, now page A stalled>
<swap out page B using same swap entry>
pte_same() <- Check pass, PTE seems
unchanged, but page A
is stalled!
swap_free() <- page B content lost!
set_pte_at() <- staled page A installed!
To fix this, reuse swapcache_prepare which will pin the swap entry using
the cache flag, and allow only one thread to pin it. Release the pin
after PT unlocked. Racers will simply busy wait since it's a rare
and very short event.
Other methods like increasing the swap count don't seem to be a good
idea after some tests, that will cause racers to fall back to the
cached swapin path, two swapin path being used at the same time
leads to a much more complex scenario.
Reproducer:
This race issue can be triggered easily using a well constructed
reproducer and patched brd (with a delay in read path) [1]:
With latest 6.8 mainline, race caused data loss can be observed easily:
$ gcc -g -lpthread test-thread-swap-race.c && ./a.out
Polulating 32MB of memory region...
Keep swapping out...
Starting round 0...
Spawning 65536 workers...
32746 workers spawned, wait for done...
Round 0: Error on 0x5aa00, expected 32746, got 32743, 3 data loss!
Round 0: Error on 0x395200, expected 32746, got 32743, 3 data loss!
Round 0: Error on 0x3fd000, expected 32746, got 32737, 9 data loss!
Round 0 Failed, 15 data loss!
This reproducer spawns multiple threads sharing the same memory region
using a small swap device. Every two threads updates mapped pages one by
one in opposite direction trying to create a race, with one dedicated
thread keep swapping out the data out using madvise.
The reproducer created a reproduce rate of about once every 5 minutes,
so the race should be totally possible in production.
After this patch, I ran the reproducer for over a few hundred rounds
and no data loss observed.
Performance overhead is minimal, microbenchmark swapin 10G from 32G
zram:
Before: 10934698 us
After: 11157121 us
Non-direct: 13155355 us (Dropping SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO flag)
Fixes: 0bcac06f27d7 ("mm, swap: skip swapcache for swapin of synchronous device")
Link: https://github.com/ryncsn/emm-test-project/tree/master/swap-stress-race [1]
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Huge thanks to Huang Ying and Chris Li for help finding this issue!
mm/memory.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
mm/swap.h | 5 +++++
mm/swapfile.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 7e1f4849463a..fd7c55a292f1 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3867,6 +3867,20 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
if (!folio) {
if (data_race(si->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO) &&
__swap_count(entry) == 1) {
+ /*
+ * With swap count == 1, after we read the entry,
+ * other threads could finish swapin first, free
+ * the entry, then swapout the modified page using
+ * the same entry. Now the content we just read is
+ * stalled, and it's undetectable as pte_same()
+ * returns true due to entry reuse.
+ *
+ * So pin the swap entry using the cache flag even
+ * cache is not used.
+ */
+ if (swapcache_prepare(entry))
+ goto out;
+
/* skip swapcache */
folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0,
vma, vmf->address, false);
@@ -4116,6 +4130,9 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
unlock:
if (vmf->pte)
pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
+ /* Clear the swap cache pin for direct swapin after PTL unlock */
+ if (folio && !swapcache)
+ swapcache_clear(si, entry);
out:
if (si)
put_swap_device(si);
@@ -4124,6 +4141,8 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
if (vmf->pte)
pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
out_page:
+ if (!swapcache)
+ swapcache_clear(si, entry);
folio_unlock(folio);
out_release:
folio_put(folio);
diff --git a/mm/swap.h b/mm/swap.h
index 758c46ca671e..fc2f6ade7f80 100644
--- a/mm/swap.h
+++ b/mm/swap.h
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ void __delete_from_swap_cache(struct folio *folio,
void delete_from_swap_cache(struct folio *folio);
void clear_shadow_from_swap_cache(int type, unsigned long begin,
unsigned long end);
+void swapcache_clear(struct swap_info_struct *si, swp_entry_t entry);
struct folio *swap_cache_get_folio(swp_entry_t entry,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr);
struct folio *filemap_get_incore_folio(struct address_space *mapping,
@@ -97,6 +98,10 @@ static inline int swap_writepage(struct page *p, struct writeback_control *wbc)
return 0;
}
+static inline void swapcache_clear(struct swap_info_struct *si, swp_entry_t entry)
+{
+}
+
static inline struct folio *swap_cache_get_folio(swp_entry_t entry,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
{
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 556ff7347d5f..f7d4ad152a7f 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -3365,6 +3365,22 @@ int swapcache_prepare(swp_entry_t entry)
return __swap_duplicate(entry, SWAP_HAS_CACHE);
}
+/*
+ * Clear the cache flag and release pinned entry.
+ */
+void swapcache_clear(struct swap_info_struct *si, swp_entry_t entry)
+{
+ struct swap_cluster_info *ci;
+ unsigned long offset = swp_offset(entry);
+ unsigned char usage;
+
+ ci = lock_cluster_or_swap_info(si, offset);
+ usage = __swap_entry_free_locked(si, offset, SWAP_HAS_CACHE);
+ unlock_cluster_or_swap_info(si, ci);
+ if (!usage)
+ free_swap_slot(entry);
+}
+
struct swap_info_struct *swp_swap_info(swp_entry_t entry)
{
return swap_type_to_swap_info(swp_type(entry));
--
2.43.0
