From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,oliver.sang@intel.com,kasong@tencent.com,hughd@google.com,baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,shikemeng@huaweicloud.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] mm-shmem-fix-potential-dead-loop-in-shmem_unuse.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 22:47:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250601054715.20547C4CEED@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/shmem: fix potential dead loop in shmem_unuse()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-shmem-fix-potential-dead-loop-in-shmem_unuse.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Subject: mm/shmem: fix potential dead loop in shmem_unuse()
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 01:09:37 +0800
If multi shmem_unuse() for different swap type is called concurrently, a
dead loop could occur as following:
shmem_unuse(typeA) shmem_unuse(typeB)
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
list_for_each_entry_safe(info, next, ...)
...
mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
/* info->swapped may drop to 0 */
shmem_unuse_inode(&info->vfs_inode, type)
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
list_for_each_entry(info, next, ...)
if (!info->swapped)
list_del_init(&info->swaplist)
...
mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
/* iterate with offlist entry and encounter a dead loop */
next = list_next_entry(info, swaplist);
...
Restart the iteration if the inode is already off shmem_swaplist list to
fix the issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-4-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: b56a2d8af914 ("mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/shmem.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmem-fix-potential-dead-loop-in-shmem_unuse
+++ a/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1505,6 +1505,7 @@ int shmem_unuse(unsigned int type)
return 0;
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex);
+start_over:
list_for_each_entry_safe(info, next, &shmem_swaplist, swaplist) {
if (!info->swapped) {
list_del_init(&info->swaplist);
@@ -1523,13 +1524,15 @@ int shmem_unuse(unsigned int type)
cond_resched();
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex);
- next = list_next_entry(info, swaplist);
- if (!info->swapped)
- list_del_init(&info->swaplist);
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&info->stop_eviction))
wake_up_var(&info->stop_eviction);
if (error)
break;
+ if (list_empty(&info->swaplist))
+ goto start_over;
+ next = list_next_entry(info, swaplist);
+ if (!info->swapped)
+ list_del_init(&info->swaplist);
}
mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from shikemeng@huaweicloud.com are
mm-swap-move-nr_swap_pages-counter-decrement-from-folio_alloc_swap-to-swap_range_alloc.patch
mm-swap-correctly-use-maxpages-in-swapon-syscall-to-avoid-potensial-deadloop.patch
mm-swap-fix-potensial-buffer-overflow-in-setup_clusters.patch
mm-swap-remove-stale-comment-stale-comment-in-cluster_alloc_swap_entry.patch
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