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author | Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com> | 2013-10-16 13:47:06 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-10-16 21:35:53 -0700 |
commit | 5b808a2300a5ac45f4798ebfac8b367e98a4b692 (patch) | |
tree | b08db2864c1380eeb1c41f29ebeea1a2c29dd473 /mm/huge_memory.c | |
parent | fad1a86e25e0a1f85635ed06ef62ddadd5b8fa4c (diff) |
swap: fix set_blocksize race during swapon/swapoff
Fix race between swapoff and swapon. Swapoff used old_block_size from
swap_info outside of swapon_mutex so it could be overwritten by
concurrent swapon.
The race has visible effect only if more than one swap block device
exists with different block sizes (e.g. /dev/sda1 with block size 4096
and /dev/sdb1 with 512). In such case it leads to setting the blocksize
of swapped off device with wrong blocksize.
The bug can be triggered with multiple concurrent swapoff and swapon:
0. Swap for some device is on.
1. swapoff:
First the swapoff is called on this device and "struct swap_info_struct
*p" is assigned. This is done under swap_lock however this lock is
released for the call try_to_unuse().
2. swapon:
After the assignment above (and before acquiring swapon_mutex &
swap_lock by swapoff) the swapon is called on the same device.
The p->old_block_size is assigned to the value of block_size the device.
This block size should be the same as previous but sometimes it is not.
The swapon ends successfully.
3. swapoff:
Swapoff resumes, grabs the locks and mutex and continues to disable this
swap device. Now it sets the block size to value taken from swap_info
which was overwritten by swapon in 2.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Reported-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang.kh@gmail.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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