Patch "mm: fix the page_swap_info() BUG_ON check" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    mm: fix the page_swap_info() BUG_ON check

to the 4.7-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-fix-the-page_swap_info-bug_on-check.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

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


>From c8de641b1e9c5489aa6ca57b7836acd68e7563f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:44:15 -0700
Subject: mm: fix the page_swap_info() BUG_ON check

From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>

commit c8de641b1e9c5489aa6ca57b7836acd68e7563f1 upstream.

Commit 62c230bc1790 ("mm: add support for a filesystem to activate
swap files and use direct_IO for writing swap pages") replaced the
swap_aops dirty hook from __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() with
swap_set_page_dirty().

For normal cases without these special SWP flags code path falls back to
__set_page_dirty_no_writeback() so the behaviour is expected to be the
same as before.

But swap_set_page_dirty() makes use of the page_swap_info() helper to
get the swap_info_struct to check for the flags like SWP_FILE,
SWP_BLKDEV etc as desired for those features.  This helper has
BUG_ON(!PageSwapCache(page)) which is racy and safe only for the
set_page_dirty_lock() path.

For the set_page_dirty() path which is often needed for cases to be
called from irq context, kswapd() can toggle the flag behind the back
while the call is getting executed when system is low on memory and
heavy swapping is ongoing.

This ends up with undesired kernel panic.

This patch just moves the check outside the helper to its users
appropriately to fix kernel panic for the described path.  Couple of
users of helpers already take care of SwapCache condition so I skipped
them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473460718-31013-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/page_io.c  |    3 +++
 mm/swapfile.c |    1 -
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ int __swap_writepage(struct page *page,
 	int ret, rw = WRITE;
 	struct swap_info_struct *sis = page_swap_info(page);
 
+	BUG_ON(!PageSwapCache(page));
 	if (sis->flags & SWP_FILE) {
 		struct kiocb kiocb;
 		struct file *swap_file = sis->swap_file;
@@ -333,6 +334,7 @@ int swap_readpage(struct page *page)
 	int ret = 0;
 	struct swap_info_struct *sis = page_swap_info(page);
 
+	BUG_ON(!PageSwapCache(page));
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageUptodate(page), page);
 	if (frontswap_load(page) == 0) {
@@ -381,6 +383,7 @@ int swap_set_page_dirty(struct page *pag
 
 	if (sis->flags & SWP_FILE) {
 		struct address_space *mapping = sis->swap_file->f_mapping;
+		BUG_ON(!PageSwapCache(page));
 		return mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty(page);
 	} else {
 		return __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(page);
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2724,7 +2724,6 @@ int swapcache_prepare(swp_entry_t entry)
 struct swap_info_struct *page_swap_info(struct page *page)
 {
 	swp_entry_t swap = { .val = page_private(page) };
-	BUG_ON(!PageSwapCache(page));
 	return swap_info[swp_type(swap)];
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com are

queue-4.7/mm-fix-the-page_swap_info-bug_on-check.patch