From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> MADV_FREE clears pte dirty bit and then marks the page lazyfree (clear SwapBacked). There is no lock to prevent the page is added to swap cache between these two steps by page reclaim. If page reclaim finds such page, it will simply add the page to swap cache without pageout the page to swap because the page is marked as clean. Next time, page fault will read data from the swap slot which doesn't have the original data, so we have a data corruption. To fix issue, we mark the page dirty and pageout the page. However, we shouldn't dirty all pages which is clean and in swap cache. swapin page is swap cache and clean too. So we only dirty page which is added into swap cache in page reclaim, which shouldn't be swapin page. As Minchan suggested, simply dirty the page in add_to_swap can do the job. Reported-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@xxxxxxxxxx> Fix: 802a3a92ad7a(mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages) Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/swap_state.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c index 71ce2d1..2d64ec4 100644 --- a/mm/swap_state.c +++ b/mm/swap_state.c @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ int add_to_swap(struct page *page) * deadlock in the swap out path. */ /* - * Add it to the swap cache. + * Add it to the swap cache and mark it dirty */ err = add_to_swap_cache(page, entry, __GFP_HIGH|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_NOWARN); @@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ int add_to_swap(struct page *page) * clear SWAP_HAS_CACHE flag. */ goto fail; + set_page_dirty(page); return 1; -- 2.9.5