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

Gao Xiang
2020-08-19T19:57:03Z

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>
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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,
--
2.18.1