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Vinayak Menon 5df373e956 mm/page_io.c: do not free shared swap slots
The following race is observed due to which a processes faulting on a
swap entry, finds the page neither in swapcache nor swap.  This causes
zram to give a zero filled page that gets mapped to the process,
resulting in a user space crash later.

Consider parent and child processes Pa and Pb sharing the same swap slot
with swap_count 2.  Swap is on zram with SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO set.
Virtual address 'VA' of Pa and Pb points to the shared swap entry.

Pa                                       Pb

fault on VA                              fault on VA
do_swap_page                             do_swap_page
lookup_swap_cache fails                  lookup_swap_cache fails
                                         Pb scheduled out
swapin_readahead (deletes zram entry)
swap_free (makes swap_count 1)
                                         Pb scheduled in
                                         swap_readpage (swap_count == 1)
                                         Takes SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO path
                                         zram enrty absent
                                         zram gives a zero filled page

Fix this by making sure that swap slot is freed only when swap count
drops down to one.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571743294-14285-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Fixes: aa8d22a11d ("mm: swap: SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO: skip swapcache only if swapped page has no other reference")
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-11-15 18:34:00 -08:00
Documentation Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-12 10:53:24 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch A fix & simplification for SGI IP27 exception handlers, and a small 2019-11-15 09:10:13 -08:00
block blkcg: make blkcg_print_stat() print stats only for online blkgs 2019-11-06 17:08:38 -07:00
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drivers mm/memory_hotplug: fix try_offline_node() 2019-11-15 18:34:00 -08:00
fs Two fixes for the buffered reads and O_DIRECT writes serialization 2019-11-15 10:30:24 -08:00
include mm/memory_hotplug: fix try_offline_node() 2019-11-15 18:34:00 -08:00
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kernel Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-11-15 08:44:08 -08:00
lib lib/xz: fix XZ_DYNALLOC to avoid useless memory reallocations 2019-11-15 18:34:00 -08:00
mm mm/page_io.c: do not free shared swap slots 2019-11-15 18:34:00 -08:00
net vsock/virtio: fix sock refcnt holding during the shutdown 2019-11-08 12:17:50 -08:00
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sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix incorrect size check for processing/extension units 2019-11-14 18:01:22 +01:00
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virt KVM: Add a comment describing the /dev/kvm no_compat handling 2019-11-15 10:14:04 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS A fix & simplification for SGI IP27 exception handlers, and a small 2019-11-15 09:10:13 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: tell sparse about the $ARCH 2019-11-15 00:13:23 +09:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.