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| author | 2019-11-15 17:35:00 -0800 | |
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| committer | 2019-11-15 18:34:00 -0800 | |
| commit | 5df373e95689b9519b8557da7c5bd0db0856d776 (patch) | |
| tree | a6a71b055740431d720c0af41c45a98674db3e42 /scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py | |
| parent | mm/memory_hotplug: fix try_offline_node() (diff) | |
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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@codeaurora.org
Fixes: aa8d22a11da9 ("mm: swap: SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO: skip swapcache only if swapped page has no other reference")
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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