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From:   Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Date:   Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:02:39 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/frontswap: fix frontswap_register_ops() race with
 swapon and swapoff
To:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
        Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 5:01 AM Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> On 2021/4/10 18:42, Yu Zhao wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 1:30 AM Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi:
> >> On 2021/4/5 18:20, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> >>> frontswap_register_ops can race with swapon. Consider the following scene:
> >>
> >> Any comment or suggestion? Or is this race window too theoretical to fix?
> >> Thanks.
> >
> > Let me run a stress test and get back to you (within a day or so).
>
> That's very kind of you. Many thanks!

I'm still getting the following crash. Probably I should try the other
series you sent earlier too?

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffaa7937d82000
  RIP: 0010:scan_swap_map_slots+0x12b/0x7f0
  Call Trace:
  get_swap_pages+0x278/0x590
   get_swap_page+0x1ab/0x280
   add_to_swap+0x7d/0x130
   shrink_page_list+0xf84/0x25f0
   reclaim_pages+0x313/0x430
  madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range+0x95c/0xaa0
   walk_p4d_range+0x43f/0x790
   walk_pgd_range+0xf1/0x150
   __walk_page_range+0x6f/0x1b0
   walk_page_range+0xbe/0x1e
   do_madvise+0x271/0x720

> >>> CPU1                                  CPU2
> >>> ----                                  ----
> >>> frontswap_register_ops
> >>>   fill bitmap a
> >>>   ops->init
> >>>                                       sys_swapon
> >>>                                         enable_swap_info
> >>>                                           frontswap_init without new ops
> >>>   add ops to frontswap_ops list
> >>>   check if swap_active_head changed
> >>>                                           add to swap_active_head
> >>>
> >>> So the frontswap_ops init is missed on the new swap device. Consider the
> >>> another scene:
> >>> CPU1                                    CPU2
> >>> ----                                    ----
> >>> frontswap_register_ops
> >>>   fill bitmap a
> >>>   ops->init
> >>>   add ops to frontswap_ops list
> >>>                                         sys_swapon
> >>>                                           enable_swap_info
> >>>                                             frontswap_init with new ops
> >>>                                             add to swap_active_head
> >>>   check if swap_active_head changed
> >>>   ops->init for new swap device [twice!]
> >>>
> >>> The frontswap_ops init will be called two times on the new swap device this
> >>> time. frontswap_register_ops can also race with swapoff. Consider the
> >>> following scene:
> >>>
> >>> CPU1                                    CPU2
> >>> ----                                    ----
> >>>                                         sys_swapoff
> >>>                                         removed from swap_active_head
> >>> frontswap_register_ops
> >>>   fill bitmap a
> >>>   ops->init without swap device
> >>>   add ops to frontswap_ops list
> >>>                                             invalidate_area with new ops
> >>>   check if swap_active_head changed
> >>>
> >>> We could call invalidate_area on a swap device under swapoff with frontswap
> >>> is uninitialized yet. Fix all these by using swapon_mutex to guard against
> >>> race with swapon and add swap_info_get_if_under_swapoff() to collect swap
> >>> devices under swapoff.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: d1dc6f1bcf1e ("frontswap: allow multiple backends")
> >>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  include/linux/swapfile.h |  2 ++
> >>>  mm/frontswap.c           | 40 +++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> >>>  mm/swapfile.c            | 13 ++++++++++++-
> >>>  3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/include/linux/swapfile.h b/include/linux/swapfile.h
> >>> index e06febf62978..7ae15d917828 100644
> >>> --- a/include/linux/swapfile.h
> >>> +++ b/include/linux/swapfile.h
> >>> @@ -9,8 +9,10 @@
> >>>  extern spinlock_t swap_lock;
> >>>  extern struct plist_head swap_active_head;
> >>>  extern struct swap_info_struct *swap_info[];
> >>> +extern struct mutex swapon_mutex;
> >>>  extern int try_to_unuse(unsigned int, bool, unsigned long);
> >>>  extern unsigned long generic_max_swapfile_size(void);
> >>>  extern unsigned long max_swapfile_size(void);
> >>> +extern struct swap_info_struct *swap_info_get_if_under_swapoff(int type);
> >>>
> >>>  #endif /* _LINUX_SWAPFILE_H */
> >>> diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c
> >>> index 130e301c5ac0..c16bfc7550b5 100644
> >>> --- a/mm/frontswap.c
> >>> +++ b/mm/frontswap.c
> >>> @@ -123,12 +123,26 @@ void frontswap_register_ops(struct frontswap_ops *ops)
> >>>
> >>>       bitmap_zero(a, MAX_SWAPFILES);
> >>>       bitmap_zero(b, MAX_SWAPFILES);
> >>> -
> >>> +     mutex_lock(&swapon_mutex);
> >>>       spin_lock(&swap_lock);
> >>>       plist_for_each_entry(si, &swap_active_head, list) {
> >>>               if (!WARN_ON(!si->frontswap_map))
> >>>                       set_bit(si->type, a);
> >>>       }
> >>> +     /*
> >>> +      * There might be some swap devices under swapoff, i.e. they are
> >>> +      * removed from swap_active_head but frontswap_invalidate_area()
> >>> +      * is not called yet due to swapon_mutex is held here. We must
> >>> +      * collect these swap devices and call ops->init on them or they
> >>> +      * might invalidate frontswap area while frontswap is uninitialized.
> >>> +      */
> >>> +     for_each_clear_bit(i, a, MAX_SWAPFILES) {
> >>> +             si = swap_info_get_if_under_swapoff(i);
> >>> +             if (!si || !si->frontswap_map)
> >>> +                     continue;
> >>> +             set_bit(si->type, b);
> >>> +     }
> >>> +     bitmap_or(a, a, b, MAX_SWAPFILES);
> >>>       spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
> >>>
> >>>       /* the new ops needs to know the currently active swap devices */
> >>> @@ -144,29 +158,9 @@ void frontswap_register_ops(struct frontswap_ops *ops)
> >>>               ops->next = frontswap_ops;
> >>>       } while (cmpxchg(&frontswap_ops, ops->next, ops) != ops->next);
> >>>
> >>> -     static_branch_inc(&frontswap_enabled_key);
> >>> -
> >>> -     spin_lock(&swap_lock);
> >>> -     plist_for_each_entry(si, &swap_active_head, list) {
> >>> -             if (si->frontswap_map)
> >>> -                     set_bit(si->type, b);
> >>> -     }
> >>> -     spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
> >>> +     mutex_unlock(&swapon_mutex);
> >>>
> >>> -     /*
> >>> -      * On the very unlikely chance that a swap device was added or
> >>> -      * removed between setting the "a" list bits and the ops init
> >>> -      * calls, we re-check and do init or invalidate for any changed
> >>> -      * bits.
> >>> -      */
> >>> -     if (unlikely(!bitmap_equal(a, b, MAX_SWAPFILES))) {
> >>> -             for (i = 0; i < MAX_SWAPFILES; i++) {
> >>> -                     if (!test_bit(i, a) && test_bit(i, b))
> >>> -                             ops->init(i);
> >>> -                     else if (test_bit(i, a) && !test_bit(i, b))
> >>> -                             ops->invalidate_area(i);
> >>> -             }
> >>> -     }
> >>> +     static_branch_inc(&frontswap_enabled_key);
> >>>  }
> >>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_register_ops);
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
> >>> index 149e77454e3c..ee736533717f 100644
> >>> --- a/mm/swapfile.c
> >>> +++ b/mm/swapfile.c
> >>> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(swap_avail_lock);
> >>>
> >>>  struct swap_info_struct *swap_info[MAX_SWAPFILES];
> >>>
> >>> -static DEFINE_MUTEX(swapon_mutex);
> >>> +DEFINE_MUTEX(swapon_mutex);
> >>>
> >>>  static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(proc_poll_wait);
> >>>  /* Activity counter to indicate that a swapon or swapoff has occurred */
> >>> @@ -2958,6 +2958,17 @@ __weak unsigned long max_swapfile_size(void)
> >>>       return generic_max_swapfile_size();
> >>>  }
> >>>
> >>> +struct swap_info_struct *swap_info_get_if_under_swapoff(int type)
> >>> +{
> >>> +     struct swap_info_struct *si = swap_type_to_swap_info(type);
> >>> +
> >>> +     if (!si || !si->swap_map)
> >>> +             return NULL;
> >>> +     if ((si->flags & SWP_USED) && !(si->flags & SWP_WRITEOK))
> >>> +             return si;
> >>> +     return NULL;
> >>> +}
> >>> +
> >>>  static unsigned long read_swap_header(struct swap_info_struct *p,
> >>>                                       union swap_header *swap_header,
> >>>                                       struct inode *inode)
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> > .
> >
>
>