Re: [PATCH] mm, THP, swap: fix allocating cluster for swapfile by mistake

Huang, Ying
2020-08-20T04:36:15Z

Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com> writes:

> SWP_FS doesn't mean the device is file-backed swap device,
> which just means each writeback request should go through fs
> by DIO. Or it'll just use extents added by .swap_activate(),
> but it also works as file-backed swap device.
>
> So in order to achieve the goal of the original patch,
> SWP_BLKDEV should be used instead.
>
> FS corruption can be observed with SSD device + XFS +
> fragmented swapfile due to CONFIG_THP_SWAP=y.
>
> Fixes: f0eea189e8e9 ("mm, THP, swap: Don't allocate huge cluster for file backed swap device")
> Fixes: 38d8b4e6bdc8 ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP during swap out")
> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>

Good catch! The fix itself looks good me! Although the description is
a little confusing.

After some digging, it seems that SWP_FS is set on the swap devices
which make swap entry read/write go through the file system specific
callback (now used by swap over NFS only).

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> ---
>
> I reproduced the issue with the following details:
>
> Environment:
> QEMU + upstream kernel + buildroot + NVMe (2 GB)
>
> Kernel config:
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME=y
> CONFIG_THP_SWAP=y
>
> Some reproducable steps:
> mkfs.xfs -f /dev/nvme0n1
> mkdir /tmp/mnt
> mount /dev/nvme0n1 /tmp/mnt
> bs="32k"
> sz="1024m" # doesn't matter too much, I also tried 16m
> xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -R -b $bs 0 $sz" -c "fdatasync" /tmp/mnt/sw
> xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -R -b $bs 0 $sz" -c "fdatasync" /tmp/mnt/sw
> xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -R -b $bs 0 $sz" -c "fdatasync" /tmp/mnt/sw
> xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -F -S 0 -b $bs 0 $sz" -c "fdatasync" /tmp/mnt/sw
> xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -R -b $bs 0 $sz" -c "fsync" /tmp/mnt/sw
>
> mkswap /tmp/mnt/sw
> swapon /tmp/mnt/sw
>
> stress --vm 2 --vm-bytes 600M # doesn't matter too much as well
>
> Symptoms:
> - FS corruption (e.g. checksum failure)
> - memory corruption at: 0xd2808010
> - segfault
> ...
>
> mm/swapfile.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
> index 6c26916e95fd..2937daf3ca02 100644
> --- a/mm/swapfile.c
> +++ b/mm/swapfile.c
> @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ int get_swap_pages(int n_goal, swp_entry_t swp_entries[], int entry_size)
> goto nextsi;
> }
> if (size == SWAPFILE_CLUSTER) {
> - if (!(si->flags & SWP_FS))
> + if (si->flags & SWP_BLKDEV)
> n_ret = swap_alloc_cluster(si, swp_entries);
> } else
> n_ret = scan_swap_map_slots(si, SWAP_HAS_CACHE,