+ mm-do-not-free-shared-swap-slots.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm/page_io.c: do not free shared swap slots
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-do-not-free-shared-swap-slots.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-do-not-free-shared-swap-slots.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-do-not-free-shared-swap-slots.patch

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From: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page_io.c: do not free shared swap slots

The following race is observed due to which a processes faulting on a swap
entry, finds the page neither in swapcache nor swap.  This causes zram to
give a zero filled page that gets mapped to the process, resulting in a
user space crash later.

Consider parent and child processes Pa and Pb sharing the same swap slot
with swap_count 2.  Swap is on zram with SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO set.  Virtual
address 'VA' of Pa and Pb points to the shared swap entry.

Pa                                       Pb

fault on VA                              fault on VA
do_swap_page                             do_swap_page
lookup_swap_cache fails                  lookup_swap_cache fails
                                         Pb scheduled out
swapin_readahead (deletes zram entry)
swap_free (makes swap_count 1)
                                         Pb scheduled in
                                         swap_readpage (swap_count == 1)
                                         Takes SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO path
                                         zram enrty absent
                                         zram gives a zero filled page

Fix this by making sure that swap slot is freed only when swap count drops
down to one.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571743294-14285-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: aa8d22a11da9 ("mm: swap: SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO: skip swapcache only if swapped page has no other reference")
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/page_io.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_io.c~mm-do-not-free-shared-swap-slots
+++ a/mm/page_io.c
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static void swap_slot_free_notify(struct
 {
 	struct swap_info_struct *sis;
 	struct gendisk *disk;
+	swp_entry_t entry;
 
 	/*
 	 * There is no guarantee that the page is in swap cache - the software
@@ -104,11 +105,10 @@ static void swap_slot_free_notify(struct
 	 * we again wish to reclaim it.
 	 */
 	disk = sis->bdev->bd_disk;
-	if (disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify) {
-		swp_entry_t entry;
+	entry.val = page_private(page);
+	if (disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify && __swap_count(entry) == 1) {
 		unsigned long offset;
 
-		entry.val = page_private(page);
 		offset = swp_offset(entry);
 
 		SetPageDirty(page);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from vinmenon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

mm-do-not-free-shared-swap-slots.patch




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