The patch titled Subject: mm/swap: fix swap_info_struct race between swapoff and get_swap_pages() has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-swap-fix-swap_info_struct-race-between-swapoff-and-get_swap_pages.patch

This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...

This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Rongwei Wang rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com Subject: mm/swap: fix swap_info_struct race between swapoff and get_swap_pages() Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 23:47:16 +0800

The si->lock must be held when deleting the si from the available list. Otherwise, another thread can re-add the si to the available list, which can lead to memory corruption. The only place we have found where this happens is in the swapoff path. This case can be described as below:

core 0 core 1 swapoff

del_from_avail_list(si) waiting

try lock si->lock acquire swap_avail_lock and re-add si into swap_avail_head

acquire si->lock but missing si already being added again, and continuing to clear SWP_WRITEOK, etc.

It can be easily found that a massive warning messages can be triggered inside get_swap_pages() by some special cases, for example, we call madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) on blocks of touched memory concurrently, meanwhile, run much swapon-swapoff operations (e.g. stress-ng-swap).

However, in the worst case, panic can be caused by the above scene. In swapoff(), the memory used by si could be kept in swap_info[] after turning off a swap. This means memory corruption will not be caused immediately until allocated and reset for a new swap in the swapon path. A panic message caused: (with CONFIG_PLIST_DEBUG enabled)

------------[ cut here ]------------ top: 00000000e58a3003, n: 0000000013e75cda, p: 000000008cd4451a prev: 0000000035b1e58a, n: 000000008cd4451a, p: 000000002150ee8d next: 000000008cd4451a, n: 000000008cd4451a, p: 000000008cd4451a WARNING: CPU: 21 PID: 1843 at lib/plist.c:60 plist_check_prev_next_node+0x50/0x70 Modules linked in: rfkill(E) crct10dif_ce(E)... CPU: 21 PID: 1843 Comm: stress-ng Kdump: ... 5.10.134+ Hardware name: Alibaba Cloud ECS, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--) pc : plist_check_prev_next_node+0x50/0x70 lr : plist_check_prev_next_node+0x50/0x70 sp : ffff0018009d3c30 x29: ffff0018009d3c40 x28: ffff800011b32a98 x27: 0000000000000000 x26: ffff001803908000 x25: ffff8000128ea088 x24: ffff800011b32a48 x23: 0000000000000028 x22: ffff001800875c00 x21: ffff800010f9e520 x20: ffff001800875c00 x19: ffff001800fdc6e0 x18: 0000000000000030 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0736076307640766 x14: 0730073007380731 x13: 0736076307640766 x12: 0730073007380731 x11: 000000000004058d x10: 0000000085a85b76 x9 : ffff8000101436e4 x8 : ffff800011c8ce08 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000001 x5 : ffff0017df9ed338 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : ffff8017ce62a000 x2 : ffff0017df9ed340 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000 Call trace: plist_check_prev_next_node+0x50/0x70 plist_check_head+0x80/0xf0 plist_add+0x28/0x140 add_to_avail_list+0x9c/0xf0 _enable_swap_info+0x78/0xb4 __do_sys_swapon+0x918/0xa10 __arm64_sys_swapon+0x20/0x30 el0_svc_common+0x8c/0x220 do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x90 el0_svc+0x1c/0x30 el0_sync_handler+0xa8/0xb0 el0_sync+0x148/0x180 irq event stamp: 2082270

Now, si->lock locked before calling 'del_from_avail_list()' to make sure other thread see the si had been deleted and SWP_WRITEOK cleared together, will not reinsert again.

This problem exists in versions after stable 5.10.y.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230404154716.23058-1-rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.... Fixes: a2468cc9bfdff ("swap: choose swap device according to numa node") Tested-by: Yongchen Yin wb-yyc939293@alibaba-inc.com Signed-off-by: Rongwei Wang rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com Cc: Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme@gmail.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org Cc: Aaron Lu aaron.lu@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/swapfile.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-swap-fix-swap_info_struct-race-between-swapoff-and-get_swap_pages +++ a/mm/swapfile.c @@ -679,6 +679,7 @@ static void __del_from_avail_list(struct { int nid;

+ assert_spin_locked(&p->lock); for_each_node(nid) plist_del(&p->avail_lists[nid], &swap_avail_heads[nid]); } @@ -2434,8 +2435,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __us spin_unlock(&swap_lock); goto out_dput; } - del_from_avail_list(p); spin_lock(&p->lock); + del_from_avail_list(p); if (p->prio < 0) { struct swap_info_struct *si = p; int nid; _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com are

mm-swap-fix-swap_info_struct-race-between-swapoff-and-get_swap_pages.patch