tree ae5b30cc84893e97f3a68f21612cb9288755555e
parent 815c2c543d3aeb914a361f981440ece552778724
author Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> 1378934431 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1378940236 -0700

swap: fix races exposed by swap discard

The previous patch can expose races, according to Hugh:

swapoff was sometimes failing with "Cannot allocate memory", coming from
try_to_unuse()'s -ENOMEM: it needs to allow for swap_duplicate() failing
on a free entry temporarily SWAP_MAP_BAD while being discarded.

We should use ACCESS_ONCE() there, and whenever accessing swap_map
locklessly; but rather than peppering it throughout try_to_unuse(), just
declare *swap_map with volatile.

try_to_unuse() is accustomed to *swap_map going down racily, but not
necessarily to it jumping up from 0 to SWAP_MAP_BAD: we'll be safer to
prevent that transition once SWP_WRITEOK is switched off, when it's a
waste of time to issue discards anyway (swapon can do a whole discard).

Another issue is:

In swapin_readahead(), read_swap_cache_async() can read a bad swap entry,
because we don't check if readahead swap entry is bad.  This doesn't break
anything but such swapin page is wasteful and can only be freed at page
reclaim.  We should avoid read such swap entry.  And in discard, we mark
swap entry SWAP_MAP_BAD and then switch it to normal when discard is
finished.  If readahead reads such swap entry, we have the same issue, so
we much check if swap entry is bad too.

Thanks Hugh to inspire swapin_readahead could use bad swap entry.

[include Hugh's patch 'swap: fix swapoff ENOMEMs from discard']
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>