From: Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Liu <liumartin@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: fix release order of locks in zs_page_migrate()
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:53:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260728055333.421080-1-richardycc@google.com> (raw)
In zs_page_migrate(), locks are acquired in the following order:
1. write_lock(&pool->lock)
2. spin_lock(&class->lock)
3. zspage_write_trylock(zspage)
However, upon successful page migration, they were being released in
forward acquisition (FIFO) order:
1. write_unlock(&pool->lock)
2. spin_unlock(&class->lock)
3. zspage_write_unlock(zspage)
Fix the unlocking order to release locks in strict reverse (LIFO)
order of acquisition:
3. zspage_write_unlock(zspage)
2. spin_unlock(&class->lock)
1. write_unlock(&pool->lock)
Releasing locks in reverse order of acquisition adheres to standard
kernel locking hygiene, prevents potential lock ordering and lockdep
inconsistencies.
Signed-off-by: Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>
---
mm/zsmalloc.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/zsmalloc.c b/mm/zsmalloc.c
index 83f5820c45f9..b09299115886 100644
--- a/mm/zsmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/zsmalloc.c
@@ -1772,9 +1772,9 @@ static int zs_page_migrate(struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
* Since we complete the data copy and set up new zspage structure,
* it's okay to release migration_lock.
*/
- write_unlock(&pool->lock);
- spin_unlock(&class->lock);
zspage_write_unlock(zspage);
+ spin_unlock(&class->lock);
+ write_unlock(&pool->lock);
zpdesc_get(newzpdesc);
if (zpdesc_zone(newzpdesc) != zpdesc_zone(zpdesc)) {
--
2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog
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2026-07-28 5:53 Richard Chang [this message]
2026-07-28 6:39 ` [PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: fix release order of locks in zs_page_migrate() Sergey Senozhatsky
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