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staging: zcache: fix cleancache race condition with shrinker 

This patch fixes a race condition that results in memory
corruption when using cleancache.

The race exists between the zcache shrinker handler,
shrink_zcache_memory() and cleancache_get_page().

In most cases, the shrinker will both evict a zbpg
from its buddy list and flush it from tmem before a
cleancache_get_page() occurs on that page. A subsequent
cleancache_get_page() will fail in the tmem layer.

In the rare case that two occur together and the
cleancache_get_page() path gets through the tmem
layer before the shrinker path can flush tmem,
zbud_decompress() does a check to see if the zbpg is a
"zombie", i.e. not on a buddy list, which means the shrinker
is in the process of reclaiming it. If the zbpg is a zombie,
zbud_decompress() returns -EINVAL.

However, this return code is being ignored by the caller,
zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free(), which results in the
caller of cleancache_get_page() thinking that the page has
been properly retrieved when it has not.

This patch modifies zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free() to
convey the failure up the stack so that the caller of
cleancache_get_page() knows the page retrieval failed.

This needs to be applied to stable trees as well.
zcache-main.c was named zcache.c before v3.1, so
I'm not sure how you want to handle trees earlier
than that.

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
wifi-calibration
Seth Jennings 2012-08-29 16:58:45 -05:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 6bd4a5d96c
commit 6d7d9798ad
1 changed files with 3 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -1251,13 +1251,12 @@ static int zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free(char *data, size_t *bufsize, bool raw,
void *pampd, struct tmem_pool *pool,
struct tmem_oid *oid, uint32_t index)
{
int ret = 0;
BUG_ON(!is_ephemeral(pool));
zbud_decompress((struct page *)(data), pampd);
if (zbud_decompress((struct page *)(data), pampd) < 0)
return -EINVAL;
zbud_free_and_delist((struct zbud_hdr *)pampd);
atomic_dec(&zcache_curr_eph_pampd_count);
return ret;
return 0;
}
/*