This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: support anonymous stable page
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-support-anonymous-stable-page.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f05714293a591038304ddae7cb0dd747bb3786cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:58:15 -0800
Subject: mm: support anonymous stable page
From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit f05714293a591038304ddae7cb0dd747bb3786cc upstream.
During developemnt for zram-swap asynchronous writeback, I found strange
corruption of compressed page, resulting in:
Modules linked in: zram(E)
CPU: 3 PID: 1520 Comm: zramd-1 Tainted: G E 4.8.0-mm1-00320-ge0d4894c9c38-dirty #3274
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
task: ffff88007620b840 task.stack: ffff880078090000
RIP: set_freeobj.part.43+0x1c/0x1f
RSP: 0018:ffff880078093ca8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000018 RBX: ffff880076798d88 RCX: ffffffff81c408c8
RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000246
RBP: ffff880078093cb0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff88005bc43030 R11: 0000000000001df3 R12: ffff880076798d88
R13: 000000000005bc43 R14: ffff88007819d1b8 R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007e380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc934048f20 CR3: 0000000077b01000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
Call Trace:
obj_malloc+0x22b/0x260
zs_malloc+0x1e4/0x580
zram_bvec_rw+0x4cd/0x830 [zram]
page_requests_rw+0x9c/0x130 [zram]
zram_thread+0xe6/0x173 [zram]
kthread+0xca/0xe0
ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
With investigation, it reveals currently stable page doesn't support
anonymous page. IOW, reuse_swap_page can reuse the page without waiting
writeback completion so it can overwrite page zram is compressing.
Unfortunately, zram has used per-cpu stream feature from v4.7.
It aims for increasing cache hit ratio of scratch buffer for
compressing. Downside of that approach is that zram should ask
memory space for compressed page in per-cpu context which requires
stricted gfp flag which could be failed. If so, it retries to
allocate memory space out of per-cpu context so it could get memory
this time and compress the data again, copies it to the memory space.
In this scenario, zram assumes the data should never be changed
but it is not true unless stable page supports. So, If the data is
changed under us, zram can make buffer overrun because second
compression size could be bigger than one we got in previous trial
and blindly, copy bigger size object to smaller buffer which is
buffer overrun. The overrun breaks zsmalloc free object chaining
so system goes crash like above.
I think below is same problem.
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997574
Unfortunately, reuse_swap_page should be atomic so that we cannot wait on
writeback in there so the approach in this patch is simply return false if
we found it needs stable page. Although it increases memory footprint
temporarily, it happens rarely and it should be reclaimed easily althoug
it happened. Also, It would be better than waiting of IO completion,
which is critial path for application latency.
Fixes: da9556a2367c ("zram: user per-cpu compression streams")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161120233015.GA14113@bbox
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482366980-3782-2-git-send-email-minchan@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <yjay.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Sangseok Lee <sangseok.lee@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/swap.h | 3 ++-
mm/swapfile.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -150,8 +150,9 @@ enum {
SWP_FILE = (1 << 7), /* set after swap_activate success */
SWP_AREA_DISCARD = (1 << 8), /* single-time swap area discards */
SWP_PAGE_DISCARD = (1 << 9), /* freed swap page-cluster discards */
+ SWP_STABLE_WRITES = (1 << 10), /* no overwrite PG_writeback pages */
/* add others here before... */
- SWP_SCANNING = (1 << 10), /* refcount in scan_swap_map */
+ SWP_SCANNING = (1 << 11), /* refcount in scan_swap_map */
};
#define SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX 32UL
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -943,11 +943,25 @@ bool reuse_swap_page(struct page *page,
count = page_trans_huge_mapcount(page, total_mapcount);
if (count <= 1 && PageSwapCache(page)) {
count += page_swapcount(page);
- if (count == 1 && !PageWriteback(page)) {
+ if (count != 1)
+ goto out;
+ if (!PageWriteback(page)) {
delete_from_swap_cache(page);
SetPageDirty(page);
+ } else {
+ swp_entry_t entry;
+ struct swap_info_struct *p;
+
+ entry.val = page_private(page);
+ p = swap_info_get(entry);
+ if (p->flags & SWP_STABLE_WRITES) {
+ spin_unlock(&p->lock);
+ return false;
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&p->lock);
}
}
+out:
return count <= 1;
}
@@ -2449,6 +2463,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use
error = -ENOMEM;
goto bad_swap;
}
+
+ if (bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(inode_to_bdi(inode)))
+ p->flags |= SWP_STABLE_WRITES;
+
if (p->bdev && blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
int cpu;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from minchan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/mm-memcg-fix-the-active-list-aging-for-lowmem-requests-when-memcg-is-enabled.patch
queue-4.9/zram-support-bdi_cap_stable_writes.patch
queue-4.9/mm-support-anonymous-stable-page.patch
queue-4.9/zram-revalidate-disk-under-init_lock.patch
queue-4.9/mm-pmd-dirty-emulation-in-page-fault-handler.patch
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