On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 07:12:58PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> When in the commit 2799e77529c2a, we're using the percpu_ref to serialize against
> concurrent swapoff, i.e. there's percpu_ref inside get_swap_device() instead of
> rcu_read_lock(). Please see commit 63d8620ecf93 ("mm/swapfile: use percpu_ref to
> serialize against concurrent swapoff") for detail.
Oh, so this is a backport problem. 2799e77529c2 was backported without
its prerequisite 63d8620ecf93. Greg, probably best to just drop
2799e77529c2 from all stable trees; the race described is not very
important (swapoff vs reading a page back from that swap device).
