This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
zswap: don't param_set_charp while holding spinlock
to the 4.4-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:
zswap-don-t-param_set_charp-while-holding-spinlock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From fd5bb66cd934987e49557455b6497fc006521940 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:26:53 -0800
Subject: zswap: don't param_set_charp while holding spinlock
From: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx>
commit fd5bb66cd934987e49557455b6497fc006521940 upstream.
Change the zpool/compressor param callback function to release the
zswap_pools_lock spinlock before calling param_set_charp, since that
function may sleep when it calls kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL.
While this problem has existed for a while, I wasn't able to trigger it
using a tight loop changing either/both the zpool and compressor params; I
think it's very unlikely to be an issue on the stable kernels, especially
since most zswap users will change the compressor and/or zpool from sysfs
only one time each boot - or zero times, if they add the params to the
kernel boot.
Fixes: c99b42c3529e ("zswap: use charp for zswap param strings")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170126155821.4545-1-ddstreet@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <dan.streetman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/zswap.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -752,18 +752,22 @@ static int __zswap_param_set(const char
pool = zswap_pool_find_get(type, compressor);
if (pool) {
zswap_pool_debug("using existing", pool);
+ WARN_ON(pool == zswap_pool_current());
list_del_rcu(&pool->list);
- } else {
- spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock);
- pool = zswap_pool_create(type, compressor);
- spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock);
}
+ spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock);
+
+ if (!pool)
+ pool = zswap_pool_create(type, compressor);
+
if (pool)
ret = param_set_charp(s, kp);
else
ret = -EINVAL;
+ spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock);
+
if (!ret) {
put_pool = zswap_pool_current();
list_add_rcu(&pool->list, &zswap_pools);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ddstreet@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/mm-zswap-use-workqueue-to-destroy-pool.patch
queue-4.4/zswap-don-t-param_set_charp-while-holding-spinlock.patch