Re: [PATCH 2/4] swap: prevent reuse during hibernation

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 01:12:38 -0700 (PDT)
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote:

> Move the hibernation check from scan_swap_map() into try_to_free_swap():

Well, it doesn't really "move" anything.  It removes one test (usage ==
SWAP_HAS_CACHE) and adds a quite different one (gfp_allowed_mask &
__GFP_IO).

> to catch not only the common case when hibernation's allocation itself
> triggers swap reuse, but also the less likely case when concurrent page
> reclaim (shrink_page_list) might happen to try_to_free_swap from a page.
> 
> Hibernation already clears __GFP_IO from the gfp_allowed_mask, to stop
> reclaim from going to swap: check that to prevent swap reuse too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
> Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
> Cc: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> ---
> 
>  mm/swapfile.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> --- swap1/mm/swapfile.c	2010-09-05 22:37:07.000000000 -0700
> +++ swap2/mm/swapfile.c	2010-09-05 22:45:54.000000000 -0700
> @@ -318,10 +318,8 @@ checks:
>  	if (offset > si->highest_bit)
>  		scan_base = offset = si->lowest_bit;
>  
> -	/* reuse swap entry of cache-only swap if not hibernation. */
> -	if (vm_swap_full()
> -		&& usage == SWAP_HAS_CACHE
> -		&& si->swap_map[offset] == SWAP_HAS_CACHE) {
> +	/* reuse swap entry of cache-only swap if not busy. */
> +	if (vm_swap_full() && si->swap_map[offset] == SWAP_HAS_CACHE) {
>  		int swap_was_freed;
>  		spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
>  		swap_was_freed = __try_to_reclaim_swap(si, offset);

This hunk is already present in 2.6.35.

> @@ -688,6 +686,24 @@ int try_to_free_swap(struct page *page)
>  	if (page_swapcount(page))
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Once hibernation has begun to create its image of memory,
> +	 * there's a danger that one of the calls to try_to_free_swap()
> +	 * - most probably a call from __try_to_reclaim_swap() while
> +	 * hibernation is allocating its own swap pages for the image,
> +	 * but conceivably even a call from memory reclaim - will free
> +	 * the swap from a page which has already been recorded in the
> +	 * image as a clean swapcache page, and then reuse its swap for
> +	 * another page of the image.  On waking from hibernation, the
> +	 * original page might be freed under memory pressure, then
> +	 * later read back in from swap, now with the wrong data.
> +	 *
> +	 * Hibernation clears bits from gfp_allowed_mask to prevent
> +	 * memory reclaim from writing to disk, so check that here.
> +	 */
> +	if (!(gfp_allowed_mask & __GFP_IO))
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	delete_from_swap_cache(page);
>  	SetPageDirty(page);
>  	return 1;

This is the good bit.  I guess the (unCc:ed!) -stable guys would like a
standalone patch.

Also, are patches [3/4] and [4/4] really -stable material??

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