The patch titled Subject: mm-swapfile-fix-possible-data-races-of-inuse_pages-v3 has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-swapfile-fix-possible-data-races-of-inuse_pages-v3.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-swapfile-fix-possible-data-races-of-inuse_pages-v3.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-swapfile-fix-possible-data-races-of-inuse_pages-v3 Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 17:33:45 +0800 use WRITE_ONCE to pair with READ_ONCE Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220625093346.48894-2-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/swapfile.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-swapfile-fix-possible-data-races-of-inuse_pages-v3 +++ a/mm/swapfile.c @@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ static void swap_range_alloc(struct swap si->lowest_bit += nr_entries; if (end == si->highest_bit) WRITE_ONCE(si->highest_bit, si->highest_bit - nr_entries); - si->inuse_pages += nr_entries; + WRITE_ONCE(si->inuse_pages, si->inuse_pages + nr_entries); if (si->inuse_pages == si->pages) { si->lowest_bit = si->max; si->highest_bit = 0; @@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ static void swap_range_free(struct swap_ add_to_avail_list(si); } atomic_long_add(nr_entries, &nr_swap_pages); - si->inuse_pages -= nr_entries; + WRITE_ONCE(si->inuse_pages, si->inuse_pages - nr_entries); if (si->flags & SWP_BLKDEV) swap_slot_free_notify = si->bdev->bd_disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-migration-remove-unneeded-lock-page-and-pagemovable-check.patch mm-migration-return-errno-when-isolate_huge_page-failed.patch mm-migration-fix-potential-pte_unmap-on-an-not-mapped-pte.patch mm-swapfile-fix-possible-data-races-of-inuse_pages.patch mm-swapfile-fix-possible-data-races-of-inuse_pages-v3.patch mm-swap-remove-swap_cache_info-statistics.patch mm-vmscan-dont-try-to-reclaim-freed-folios.patch mm-page_alloc-minor-clean-up-for-memmap_init_compound.patch mm-madvise-minor-cleanup-for-swapin_walk_pmd_entry.patch mm-mmapc-fix-missing-call-to-vm_unacct_memory-in-mmap_region.patch mm-khugepaged-remove-unneeded-shmem_huge_enabled-check.patch mm-khugepaged-stop-swapping-in-page-when-vm_fault_retry-occurs.patch mm-khugepaged-trivial-typo-and-codestyle-cleanup.patch mm-khugepaged-minor-cleanup-for-collapse_file.patch mm-khugepaged-use-helper-macro-__attr_rw.patch mm-khugepaged-remove-unneeded-return-value-of-khugepaged_add_pte_mapped_thp.patch mm-khugepaged-try-to-free-transhuge-swapcache-when-possible.patch