Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753257AbaBCXXn (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Feb 2014 18:23:43 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:47275 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751195AbaBCXXm (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Feb 2014 18:23:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:23:40 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Weijie Yang Cc: hughd@google.com, "'Minchan Kim'" , shli@kernel.org, "'Bob Liu'" , weijie.yang.kh@gmail.com, "'Seth Jennings'" , "'Heesub Shin'" , mquzik@redhat.com, "'Linux-MM'" , "'linux-kernel'" , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon Message-Id: <20140203152340.b28bb35698ee75615eb23041@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <000d01cf1b47$f12e11f0$d38a35d0$%yang@samsung.com> References: <000d01cf1b47$f12e11f0$d38a35d0$%yang@samsung.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:03:04 +0800 Weijie Yang wrote: > 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 clear SWP_USED flag after all its resources freed, so that swapon > can reuse this swap_info by alloc_swap_info() safely. > > This patch is just for a rare scenario, aim to correct of code. I believe that http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-swap-fix-race-on-swap_info-reuse-between-swapoff-and-swapon.patch makes this patch redundant? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/