Subject: [merged] 
mm-swap-fix-race-on-swap_info-reuse-between-swapoff-and-swapon.patch removed 
from -mm tree
To: 
[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]
From: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:18:41 -0800


The patch titled
     Subject: mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-swap-fix-race-on-swap_info-reuse-between-swapoff-and-swapon.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

------------------------------------------------------
From: Weijie Yang <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon

swapoff clear swap_info's SWP_USED flag prematurely and free its resources
after that.  A concurrent swapon will reuse this swap_info while its
previous resources are not cleared completely.

These late freed resources are:
- p->percpu_cluster
- swap_cgroup_ctrl[type]
- block_device setting
- inode->i_flags &= ~S_SWAPFILE

This patch clears the SWP_USED flag after all its resources are freed, so
that swapon can reuse this swap_info by alloc_swap_info() safely.

[[email protected]: tidy up code comment]
Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 mm/swapfile.c |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN 
mm/swapfile.c~mm-swap-fix-race-on-swap_info-reuse-between-swapoff-and-swapon 
mm/swapfile.c
--- 
a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-swap-fix-race-on-swap_info-reuse-between-swapoff-and-swapon
+++ a/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1923,7 +1923,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __us
        p->swap_map = NULL;
        cluster_info = p->cluster_info;
        p->cluster_info = NULL;
-       p->flags = 0;
        frontswap_map = frontswap_map_get(p);
        spin_unlock(&p->lock);
        spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
@@ -1949,6 +1948,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __us
                mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
        }
        filp_close(swap_file, NULL);
+
+       /*
+        * Clear the SWP_USED flag after all resources are freed so that swapon
+        * can reuse this swap_info in alloc_swap_info() safely.  It is ok to
+        * not hold p->lock after we cleared its SWP_WRITEOK.
+        */
+       spin_lock(&swap_lock);
+       p->flags = 0;
+       spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
+
        err = 0;
        atomic_inc(&proc_poll_event);
        wake_up_interruptible(&proc_poll_wait);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

origin.patch

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