The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: swap: correctly use maxpages in swapon syscall to avoid potential deadloop has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-swap-correctly-use-maxpages-in-swapon-syscall-to-avoid-potensial-deadloop.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------ From: Kemeng Shi shikemeng@huaweicloud.com Subject: mm: swap: correctly use maxpages in swapon syscall to avoid potential deadloop Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 20:25:52 +0800
We use maxpages from read_swap_header() to initialize swap_info_struct, however the maxpages might be reduced in setup_swap_extents() and the si->max is assigned with the reduced maxpages from the setup_swap_extents().
Obviously, this could lead to memory waste as we allocated memory based on larger maxpages, besides, this could lead to a potential deadloop as following:
1) When calling setup_clusters() with larger maxpages, unavailable pages within range [si->max, larger maxpages) are not accounted with inc_cluster_info_page(). As a result, these pages are assumed available but can not be allocated. The cluster contains these pages can be moved to frag_clusters list after it's all available pages were allocated.
2) When the cluster mentioned in 1) is the only cluster in frag_clusters list, cluster_alloc_swap_entry() assume order 0 allocation will never failed and will enter a deadloop by keep trying to allocate page from the only cluster in frag_clusters which contains no actually available page.
Call setup_swap_extents() to get the final maxpages before swap_info_struct initialization to fix the issue.
After this change, span will include badblocks and will become large value which I think is correct value: In summary, there are two kinds of swapfile_activate operations.
1. Filesystem style: Treat all blocks logical continuity and find usable physical extents in logical range. In this way, si->pages will be actual usable physical blocks and span will be "1 + highest_block - lowest_block".
2. Block device style: Treat all blocks physically continue and only one single extent is added. In this way, si->pages will be si->max and span will be "si->pages - 1". Actually, si->pages and si->max is only used in block device style and span value is set with si->pages. As a result, span value in block device style will become a larger value as you mentioned.
I think larger value is correct based on:
1. Span value in filesystem style is "1 + highest_block - lowest_block" which is the range cover all possible phisical blocks including the badblocks.
2. For block device style, si->pages is the actual usable block number and is already in pr_info. The original span value before this patch is also refer to usable block number which is redundant in pr_info.
[shikemeng@huaweicloud.com: ensure si->pages == si->max - 1 after setup_swap_extents()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250522122554.12209-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250718065139.61989-1-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250522122554.12209-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com Fixes: 661383c6111a ("mm: swap: relaim the cached parts that got scanned") Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi shikemeng@huaweicloud.com Reviewed-by: Baoquan He bhe@redhat.com Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Kairui Song kasong@tencent.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/swapfile.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-swap-correctly-use-maxpages-in-swapon-syscall-to-avoid-potensial-deadloop +++ a/mm/swapfile.c @@ -3141,43 +3141,30 @@ static unsigned long read_swap_header(st return maxpages; }
-static int setup_swap_map_and_extents(struct swap_info_struct *si, - union swap_header *swap_header, - unsigned char *swap_map, - unsigned long maxpages, - sector_t *span) +static int setup_swap_map(struct swap_info_struct *si, + union swap_header *swap_header, + unsigned char *swap_map, + unsigned long maxpages) { - unsigned int nr_good_pages; unsigned long i; - int nr_extents; - - nr_good_pages = maxpages - 1; /* omit header page */
+ swap_map[0] = SWAP_MAP_BAD; /* omit header page */ for (i = 0; i < swap_header->info.nr_badpages; i++) { unsigned int page_nr = swap_header->info.badpages[i]; if (page_nr == 0 || page_nr > swap_header->info.last_page) return -EINVAL; if (page_nr < maxpages) { swap_map[page_nr] = SWAP_MAP_BAD; - nr_good_pages--; + si->pages--; } }
- if (nr_good_pages) { - swap_map[0] = SWAP_MAP_BAD; - si->max = maxpages; - si->pages = nr_good_pages; - nr_extents = setup_swap_extents(si, span); - if (nr_extents < 0) - return nr_extents; - nr_good_pages = si->pages; - } - if (!nr_good_pages) { + if (!si->pages) { pr_warn("Empty swap-file\n"); return -EINVAL; }
- return nr_extents; + return 0; }
#define SWAP_CLUSTER_INFO_COLS \ @@ -3217,7 +3204,7 @@ static struct swap_cluster_info *setup_c * Mark unusable pages as unavailable. The clusters aren't * marked free yet, so no list operations are involved yet. * - * See setup_swap_map_and_extents(): header page, bad pages, + * See setup_swap_map(): header page, bad pages, * and the EOF part of the last cluster. */ inc_cluster_info_page(si, cluster_info, 0); @@ -3363,6 +3350,21 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use goto bad_swap_unlock_inode; }
+ si->max = maxpages; + si->pages = maxpages - 1; + nr_extents = setup_swap_extents(si, &span); + if (nr_extents < 0) { + error = nr_extents; + goto bad_swap_unlock_inode; + } + if (si->pages != si->max - 1) { + pr_err("swap:%u != (max:%u - 1)\n", si->pages, si->max); + error = -EINVAL; + goto bad_swap_unlock_inode; + } + + maxpages = si->max; + /* OK, set up the swap map and apply the bad block list */ swap_map = vzalloc(maxpages); if (!swap_map) { @@ -3374,12 +3376,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use if (error) goto bad_swap_unlock_inode;
- nr_extents = setup_swap_map_and_extents(si, swap_header, swap_map, - maxpages, &span); - if (unlikely(nr_extents < 0)) { - error = nr_extents; + error = setup_swap_map(si, swap_header, swap_map, maxpages); + if (error) goto bad_swap_unlock_inode; - }
/* * Use kvmalloc_array instead of bitmap_zalloc as the allocation order might _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from shikemeng@huaweicloud.com are