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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap: fix oops during block io poll in swapin path
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:48:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170726144812.30423e9eb7894ed97fa5fa32@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170726143153.4b74dad79efb13480c728c04@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:31:53 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:33:50 -0700 Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 07:25:03PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > When a thread is OOM-killed during swap_readpage() operation, an oops
> > > occurs because end_swap_bio_read() is calling wake_up_process() based on
> > > an assumption that the thread which called swap_readpage() is still alive.
> > > 
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > 
> > > Fix it by holding a reference to the thread.
> > 
> > Ok, so the task is killed in the page fault retry time check, thanks!
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
> > 
> 
> The original patch didn't appear in my inbox and marc.info doesn't
> appear to have received it either.    Can we please have a resend?

Jens sent me a copy (thanks).

A get_task_struct in the middle of readpage is very strange-looking. 
So a comment is needed.  This?

--- a/mm/page_io.c~swap-fix-oops-during-block-io-poll-in-swapin-path-fix
+++ a/mm/page_io.c
@@ -380,6 +380,10 @@ int swap_readpage(struct page *page, boo
 		goto out;
 	}
 	bdev = bio->bi_bdev;
+	/*
+	 * Keep this task valid during swap readpage because the oom killer may
+	 * attempt to access it in the page fault retry time check.
+	 */
 	get_task_struct(current);
 	bio->bi_private = current;
 	bio_set_op_attrs(bio, REQ_OP_READ, 0);
_

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-07-26 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1501064703-5888-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
2017-07-26 16:33 ` [PATCH] swap: fix oops during block io poll in swapin path Shaohua Li
2017-07-26 21:31   ` Andrew Morton
2017-07-26 21:48     ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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