This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: zcache: fix cleancache race condition with shrinker
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 6d7d9798ad5c97ee4e911dd070dc12dc5ae55bd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Jennings <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:58:45 -0500
Subject: staging: zcache: fix cleancache race condition with shrinker
This patch fixes a race condition that results in memory
corruption when using cleancache.
The race exists between the zcache shrinker handler,
shrink_zcache_memory() and cleancache_get_page().
In most cases, the shrinker will both evict a zbpg
from its buddy list and flush it from tmem before a
cleancache_get_page() occurs on that page. A subsequent
cleancache_get_page() will fail in the tmem layer.
In the rare case that two occur together and the
cleancache_get_page() path gets through the tmem
layer before the shrinker path can flush tmem,
zbud_decompress() does a check to see if the zbpg is a
"zombie", i.e. not on a buddy list, which means the shrinker
is in the process of reclaiming it. If the zbpg is a zombie,
zbud_decompress() returns -EINVAL.
However, this return code is being ignored by the caller,
zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free(), which results in the
caller of cleancache_get_page() thinking that the page has
been properly retrieved when it has not.
This patch modifies zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free() to
convey the failure up the stack so that the caller of
cleancache_get_page() knows the page retrieval failed.
This needs to be applied to stable trees as well.
zcache-main.c was named zcache.c before v3.1, so
I'm not sure how you want to handle trees earlier
than that.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
index c214977..52b43b7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
@@ -1251,13 +1251,12 @@ static int zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free(char *data,
size_t *bufsize, bool raw,
void *pampd, struct tmem_pool *pool,
struct tmem_oid *oid, uint32_t index)
{
- int ret = 0;
-
BUG_ON(!is_ephemeral(pool));
- zbud_decompress((struct page *)(data), pampd);
+ if (zbud_decompress((struct page *)(data), pampd) < 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
zbud_free_and_delist((struct zbud_hdr *)pampd);
atomic_dec(&zcache_curr_eph_pampd_count);
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
/*
--
1.7.12.176.g3fc0e4c
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