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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>,  Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
	Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>,
	 Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>, Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>,
	 Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
	Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	 "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	 Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>,
	 Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@meta.com,  Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] mm, swap: distinguish a malformed swap entry from a dying device
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:26:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810-swap-v1-2-375ef0767206@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810-swap-v1-0-375ef0767206@debian.org>

get_swap_device() returns NULL both for an entry that can never name a
slot on any device and for a device that swapoff is taking away. The
first never becomes valid, the second does, and callers cannot tell
them apart.

Return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) for the two malformed cases and keep NULL for
swapoff. Callers bail out on failure either way, so switch them to
IS_ERR_OR_NULL() and clear si where the cleanup path would otherwise
put an ERR_PTR. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
 mm/memory.c      |  4 +++-
 mm/mincore.c     |  2 +-
 mm/shmem.c       |  2 +-
 mm/swap_state.c  |  4 ++--
 mm/swapfile.c    | 13 ++++++++-----
 mm/userfaultfd.c |  3 ++-
 mm/zswap.c       |  2 +-
 7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index d9cf941967cf0..4238778b66c42 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4956,8 +4956,10 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 
 	/* Prevent swapoff from happening to us. */
 	si = get_swap_device(entry);
-	if (unlikely(!si))
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(si)) {
+		si = NULL;
 		goto out;
+	}
 
 	folio = swap_cache_get_folio(entry);
 	if (folio)
diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
index ff4ac82817683..c086836bc4bcc 100644
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static unsigned char mincore_swap(swp_entry_t entry, bool shmem)
 	 */
 	if (shmem) {
 		si = get_swap_device(entry);
-		if (!si)
+		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(si))
 			return 0;
 	}
 	folio = swap_cache_get_folio(entry);
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 65572cbf1bd3c..d0a9f52bfed71 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2276,7 +2276,7 @@ static int shmem_swapin_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 
 	si = get_swap_device(index_entry);
 	order = shmem_confirm_swap(mapping, index, index_entry);
-	if (unlikely(!si)) {
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(si)) {
 		if (order < 0)
 			return -EEXIST;
 		else
diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
index 4b7a3303c463b..f2e86d6626ecc 100644
--- a/mm/swap_state.c
+++ b/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ struct folio *read_swap_cache_async(struct swap_io_ctx *ctx, swp_entry_t entry,
 	struct folio *folio;
 
 	si = get_swap_device(entry);
-	if (!si)
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(si))
 		return NULL;
 
 	mpol = get_vma_policy(vma, addr, 0, &ilx);
@@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ static struct folio *swap_vma_readahead(swp_entry_t targ_entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 		 */
 		if (swp_type(entry) != swp_type(targ_entry)) {
 			si = get_swap_device(entry);
-			if (!si)
+			if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(si))
 				continue;
 		}
 		folio = swap_cache_read_folio(&ctx, entry, gfp_mask, mpol, ilx,
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 9ab11dc24e4f1..29612a0cf7afa 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1504,7 +1504,7 @@ int swap_retry_table_alloc(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp)
 	unsigned long offset = swp_offset(entry);
 
 	si = get_swap_device(entry);
-	if (!si)
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(si))
 		return 0;
 
 	ci = __swap_offset_to_cluster(si, offset);
@@ -1859,7 +1859,9 @@ void folio_put_swap(struct folio *folio, struct page *page)
  * Check whether swap entry is valid in the swap device.  If so,
  * return pointer to swap_info_struct, and keep the swap entry valid
  * via preventing the swap device from being swapoff, until
- * put_swap_device() is called.  Otherwise return NULL.
+ * put_swap_device() is called.  Return NULL for an empty entry or a
+ * device that is going away, and ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) if the entry itself
+ * is malformed and can never name a slot on any device.
  *
  * Notice that swapoff or swapoff+swapon can still happen before the
  * percpu_ref_tryget_live() in get_swap_device() or after the
@@ -1900,12 +1902,13 @@ struct swap_info_struct *get_swap_device(swp_entry_t entry)
 	return si;
 bad_nofile:
 	pr_err_ratelimited("%s: %s%08lx\n", __func__, Bad_file, entry.val);
+	return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 out:
 	return NULL;
 put_out:
 	pr_err_ratelimited("%s: %s%08lx\n", __func__, Bad_offset, entry.val);
 	percpu_ref_put(&si->users);
-	return NULL;
+	return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2001,7 +2004,7 @@ int swp_swapcount(swp_entry_t entry)
 	int count;
 
 	si = get_swap_device(entry);
-	if (!si)
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(si))
 		return 0;
 
 	ci = swap_cluster_lock(si, swp_offset(entry));
@@ -2127,7 +2130,7 @@ void swap_put_entries_direct(swp_entry_t entry, int nr)
 	struct swap_info_struct *si;
 
 	si = get_swap_device(entry);
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!si))
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR_OR_NULL(si)))
 		return;
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(end_offset > si->max))
 		goto out;
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 24a4d92ffa3c2..bf7bc7fb1aa0f 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1700,7 +1700,8 @@ static long move_pages_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t *src_pmd
 		}
 
 		si = get_swap_device(entry);
-		if (unlikely(!si)) {
+		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(si)) {
+			si = NULL;
 			ret = -EAGAIN;
 			goto out;
 		}
diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index f7c9c89f6449c..bc9b931d6f447 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry,
 
 	/* try to allocate swap cache folio */
 	si = get_swap_device(swpentry);
-	if (!si)
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(si))
 		return -EEXIST;
 
 	mpol = get_task_policy(current);

-- 
2.53.0-Meta



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-10 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-10 16:26 [PATCH 0/3] mm, swap: don't spin or flood the console on a bad swap entry Breno Leitao
2026-08-10 16:26 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm, swap: ratelimit bad swap entry reports in get_swap_device() Breno Leitao
2026-08-11 15:33   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-11 16:48     ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-12 10:37       ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-12 10:58       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-10 16:26 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-08-11 15:36   ` [PATCH 2/3] mm, swap: distinguish a malformed swap entry from a dying device David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-12 10:48     ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-12 11:00       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-12 11:02       ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-12 11:06         ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-10 16:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: fail the fault on a malformed swap entry instead of retrying it Breno Leitao
2026-08-11 15:38   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-12 10:50     ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-12 10:59   ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-12 11:03     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-10 17:20 ` [PATCH 0/3] mm, swap: don't spin or flood the console on a bad swap entry Andrew Morton
2026-08-12 11:05   ` Breno Leitao

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