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* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/page_io.c: do not free shared swap slots" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree
@ 2019-11-18 16:37 gregkh
  2019-11-18 16:40 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: gregkh @ 2019-11-18 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: vinmenon, akpm, hughd, mhocko, minchan, minchan, stable, torvalds; +Cc: stable


The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 5df373e95689b9519b8557da7c5bd0db0856d776 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:35:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm/page_io.c: do not free shared swap slots

The following race is observed due to which a processes faulting on a
swap entry, finds the page neither in swapcache nor swap.  This causes
zram to give a zero filled page that gets mapped to the process,
resulting in a user space crash later.

Consider parent and child processes Pa and Pb sharing the same swap slot
with swap_count 2.  Swap is on zram with SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO set.
Virtual address 'VA' of Pa and Pb points to the shared swap entry.

Pa                                       Pb

fault on VA                              fault on VA
do_swap_page                             do_swap_page
lookup_swap_cache fails                  lookup_swap_cache fails
                                         Pb scheduled out
swapin_readahead (deletes zram entry)
swap_free (makes swap_count 1)
                                         Pb scheduled in
                                         swap_readpage (swap_count == 1)
                                         Takes SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO path
                                         zram enrty absent
                                         zram gives a zero filled page

Fix this by making sure that swap slot is freed only when swap count
drops down to one.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571743294-14285-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Fixes: aa8d22a11da9 ("mm: swap: SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO: skip swapcache only if swapped page has no other reference")
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c
index 24ee600f9131..60a66a58b9bf 100644
--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static void swap_slot_free_notify(struct page *page)
 {
 	struct swap_info_struct *sis;
 	struct gendisk *disk;
+	swp_entry_t entry;
 
 	/*
 	 * There is no guarantee that the page is in swap cache - the software
@@ -104,11 +105,10 @@ static void swap_slot_free_notify(struct page *page)
 	 * we again wish to reclaim it.
 	 */
 	disk = sis->bdev->bd_disk;
-	if (disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify) {
-		swp_entry_t entry;
+	entry.val = page_private(page);
+	if (disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify && __swap_count(entry) == 1) {
 		unsigned long offset;
 
-		entry.val = page_private(page);
 		offset = swp_offset(entry);
 
 		SetPageDirty(page);


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