Patch "mm: frontswap: invalidate expired data on a dup-store failure" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm: frontswap: invalidate expired data on a dup-store failure

to the 3.10-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:
     mm-frontswap-invalidate-expired-data-on-a-dup-store-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From fb993fa1a2f669215fa03a09eed7848f2663e336 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 15:59:25 -0800
Subject: mm: frontswap: invalidate expired data on a dup-store failure

From: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit fb993fa1a2f669215fa03a09eed7848f2663e336 upstream.

If a frontswap dup-store failed, it should invalidate the expired page
in the backend, or it could trigger some data corruption issue.
Such as:
 1. use zswap as the frontswap backend with writeback feature
 2. store a swap page(version_1) to entry A, success
 3. dup-store a newer page(version_2) to the same entry A, fail
 4. use __swap_writepage() write version_2 page to swapfile, success
 5. zswap do shrink, writeback version_1 page to swapfile
 6. version_2 page is overwrited by version_1, data corrupt.

This patch fixes this issue by invalidating expired data immediately
when meet a dup-store failure.

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 mm/frontswap.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/frontswap.c
+++ b/mm/frontswap.c
@@ -244,8 +244,10 @@ int __frontswap_store(struct page *page)
 		  the (older) page from frontswap
 		 */
 		inc_frontswap_failed_stores();
-		if (dup)
+		if (dup) {
 			__frontswap_clear(sis, offset);
+			frontswap_ops->invalidate_page(type, offset);
+		}
 	}
 	if (frontswap_writethrough_enabled)
 		/* report failure so swap also writes to swap device */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from weijie.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.10/mm-frontswap-invalidate-expired-data-on-a-dup-store-failure.patch
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