[PATCH v3 4/4] mm/shmem: fix shmem_swapin() race with swapoff

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Tue Apr 20 2021 - 09:31:59 EST


When I was investigating the swap code, I found the below possible race
window:

CPU 1 CPU 2
----- -----
shmem_swapin
swap_cluster_readahead
if (likely(si->flags & (SWP_BLKDEV | SWP_FS_OPS))) {
swapoff
percpu_ref_kill(&p->users)
synchronize_rcu()
wait_for_completion
..
si->swap_file = NULL;
struct inode *inode = si->swap_file->f_mapping->host;[oops!]

Close this race window by using get/put_swap_device() to guard against
concurrent swapoff.

Fixes: 8fd2e0b505d1 ("mm: swap: check if swap backing device is congested or not")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 26c76b13ad23..936ba5595297 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1492,15 +1492,21 @@ static void shmem_pseudo_vma_destroy(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
static struct page *shmem_swapin(swp_entry_t swap, gfp_t gfp,
struct shmem_inode_info *info, pgoff_t index)
{
+ struct swap_info_struct *si;
struct vm_area_struct pvma;
struct page *page;
struct vm_fault vmf = {
.vma = &pvma,
};

+ /* Prevent swapoff from happening to us. */
+ si = get_swap_device(swap);
+ if (unlikely(!si))
+ return NULL;
shmem_pseudo_vma_init(&pvma, info, index);
page = swap_cluster_readahead(swap, gfp, &vmf);
shmem_pseudo_vma_destroy(&pvma);
+ put_swap_device(si);

return page;
}
--
2.19.1