Re: [PATCH v2] mm, THP, swap: fix allocating cluster for swapfile by mistake

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Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> SWP_FS is used to make swap_{read,write}page() go through
> the filesystem, and it's only used for swap files over
> NFS. So, !SWP_FS means non NFS for now, it could be either
> file backed or device backed. Something similar goes with
> legacy SWP_FILE.
>
> So in order to achieve the goal of the original patch,
> SWP_BLKDEV should be used instead.
>
> FS corruption can be observed with SSD device + XFS +
> fragmented swapfile due to CONFIG_THP_SWAP=y.
>
> I reproduced the issue with the following details:
>
> Environment:
> QEMU + upstream kernel + buildroot + NVMe (2 GB)
>
> Kernel config:
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME=y
> CONFIG_THP_SWAP=y
>
> Some reproducable steps:
> mkfs.xfs -f /dev/nvme0n1
> mkdir /tmp/mnt
> mount /dev/nvme0n1 /tmp/mnt
> bs="32k"
> sz="1024m"    # doesn't matter too much, I also tried 16m
> xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -R -b $bs 0 $sz" -c "fdatasync" /tmp/mnt/sw
> xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -R -b $bs 0 $sz" -c "fdatasync" /tmp/mnt/sw
> xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -R -b $bs 0 $sz" -c "fdatasync" /tmp/mnt/sw
> xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -F -S 0 -b $bs 0 $sz" -c "fdatasync" /tmp/mnt/sw
> xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -R -b $bs 0 $sz" -c "fsync" /tmp/mnt/sw
>
> mkswap /tmp/mnt/sw
> swapon /tmp/mnt/sw
>
> stress --vm 2 --vm-bytes 600M   # doesn't matter too much as well
>
> Symptoms:
>  - FS corruption (e.g. checksum failure)
>  - memory corruption at: 0xd2808010
>  - segfault
>
> Fixes: f0eea189e8e9 ("mm, THP, swap: Don't allocate huge cluster for file backed swap device")
> Fixes: 38d8b4e6bdc8 ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP during swap out")
> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying



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