This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: frontswap: invalidate expired data on a dup-store failure
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-frontswap-invalidate-expired-data-on-a-dup-store-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From fb993fa1a2f669215fa03a09eed7848f2663e336 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Weijie Yang <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 15:59:25 -0800
Subject: mm: frontswap: invalidate expired data on a dup-store failure
From: Weijie Yang <[email protected]>
commit fb993fa1a2f669215fa03a09eed7848f2663e336 upstream.
If a frontswap dup-store failed, it should invalidate the expired page
in the backend, or it could trigger some data corruption issue.
Such as:
1. use zswap as the frontswap backend with writeback feature
2. store a swap page(version_1) to entry A, success
3. dup-store a newer page(version_2) to the same entry A, fail
4. use __swap_writepage() write version_2 page to swapfile, success
5. zswap do shrink, writeback version_1 page to swapfile
6. version_2 page is overwrited by version_1, data corrupt.
This patch fixes this issue by invalidating expired data immediately
when meet a dup-store failure.
Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: Seth Jennings <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Streetman <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Bob Liu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
mm/frontswap.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/frontswap.c
+++ b/mm/frontswap.c
@@ -244,8 +244,10 @@ int __frontswap_store(struct page *page)
the (older) page from frontswap
*/
inc_frontswap_failed_stores();
- if (dup)
+ if (dup) {
__frontswap_clear(sis, offset);
+ frontswap_ops->invalidate_page(type, offset);
+ }
}
if (frontswap_writethrough_enabled)
/* report failure so swap also writes to swap device */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.10/mm-frontswap-invalidate-expired-data-on-a-dup-store-failure.patch
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