Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] mm/shmem: fix infinite loop when swap in shmem error at swapoff time

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 21 May 2022 17:34:28 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2022/5/20 14:34, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 08:50:29PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> >> When swap in shmem error at swapoff time, there would be a infinite loop
> >> in the while loop in shmem_unuse_inode(). It's because swapin error is
> >> deliberately ignored now and thus info->swapped will never reach 0. So
> >> we can't escape the loop in shmem_unuse().
> >>
> >> In order to fix the issue, swapin_error entry is stored in the mapping
> >> when swapin error occurs. So the swapcache page can be freed and the
> >> user won't end up with a permanently mounted swap because a sector is
> >> bad. If the page is accessed later, the user process will be killed
> >> so that corrupted data is never consumed. On the other hand, if the
> >> page is never accessed, the user won't even notice it.
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Hi Miaohe,
> > 
> > Thank you for the update.  I might miss something, but I still see the same
> > problem (I checked it on mm-everything-2022-05-19-00-03 + this patchset).
> 
> Hi Naoya,
> I reproduce the issue in the linux-next-next-20220520 version. And I found even if
> I *do not inject the swapin error*, the deadloop still occurs. After investigating the
> code for a long while, I found the root cause:
> 
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index d55dd972023a..6d23ed4d23cb 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ static int shmem_find_swap_entries(struct address_space *mapping,
>                 if (swp_type(entry) != type)
>                         continue;
> 
> -               indices[ret] = xas.xa_index;
> +               indices[ret++] = xas.xa_index;
>                 if (!folio_batch_add(fbatch, folio))
>                         break;
> 
> The origin code does not increment the ret value when a folio is found. I will send a patch
> to fix this next week. Thanks! :)

So I'm thinking that with Hugh's "mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff
hang", this patchset is now looking OK, so

mm-swapfile-unuse_pte-can-map-random-data-if-swap-read-fails.patch
mm-swapfile-fix-lost-swap-bits-in-unuse_pte.patch
mm-madvise-free-hwpoison-and-swapin-error-entry-in-madvise_free_pte_range.patch
mm-shmem-fix-infinite-loop-when-swap-in-shmem-error-at-swapoff-time.patch
mm-filter-out-swapin-error-entry-in-shmem-mapping.patch
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are OK for merging into mainline?