The patch titled
Subject: mm: fix race between swapoff and mincore
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-mincore.patch
This patch was dropped because it is obsolete
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From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: fix race between swapoff and mincore
Via commit 4b3ef9daa4fc ("mm/swap: split swap cache into 64MB trunks") on,
after swapoff, the address_space associated with the swap device will be
freed. So swap_address_space() users which touch the address_space need
some kind of mechanism to prevent the address_space from being freed
during accessing.
When mincore process unmapped range for swapped shmem pages, it doesn't
hold the lock to prevent swap device from being swapoff. So the following
race is possible,
CPU1 CPU2
do_mincore() swapoff()
walk_page_range()
mincore_unmapped_range()
__mincore_unmapped_range
mincore_page
as = swap_address_space()
... exit_swap_address_space()
... kvfree(spaces)
find_get_page(as)
The address space may be accessed after being freed.
To fix the race, get_swap_device()/put_swap_device() is used to enclose
find_get_page() to check whether the swap entry is valid and prevent the
swap device from being swapoff during accessing.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313012036.1597-1-ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 4b3ef9daa4fc ("mm/swap: split swap cache into 64MB trunks")
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mincore.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/mincore.c~mm-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-mincore
+++ a/mm/mincore.c
@@ -68,8 +68,16 @@ static unsigned char mincore_page(struct
*/
if (xa_is_value(page)) {
swp_entry_t swp = radix_to_swp_entry(page);
- page = find_get_page(swap_address_space(swp),
- swp_offset(swp));
+ struct swap_info_struct *si;
+
+ /* Prevent swap device to being swapoff under us */
+ si = get_swap_device(swp);
+ if (si) {
+ page = find_get_page(swap_address_space(swp),
+ swp_offset(swp));
+ put_swap_device(si);
+ } else
+ page = NULL;
}
} else
page = find_get_page(mapping, pgoff);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-swap-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-some-swap-operations.patch
mm-swap-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-some-swap-operations-v6.patch
