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    zswap: disable changing params if init fails · 7aeb95ce
    Dan Streetman authored
    commit d7b028f5 upstream.
    
    Add zswap_init_failed bool that prevents changing any of the module
    params, if init_zswap() fails, and set zswap_enabled to false.  Change
    'enabled' param to a callback, and check zswap_init_failed before
    allowing any change to 'enabled', 'zpool', or 'compressor' params.
    
    Any driver that is built-in to the kernel will not be unloaded if its
    init function returns error, and its module params remain accessible for
    users to change via sysfs.  Since zswap uses param callbacks, which
    assume that zswap has been initialized, changing the zswap params after
    a failed initialization will result in WARNING due to the param
    callbacks expecting a pool to already exist.  This prevents that by
    immediately exiting any of the param callbacks if initialization failed.
    
    This was reported here:
      https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=147004228125528&w=4
    
    And fixes this WARNING:
      [  429.723476] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5140 at mm/zswap.c:503 __zswap_pool_current+0x56/0x60
    
    The warning is just noise, and not serious.  However, when init fails,
    zswap frees all its percpu dstmem pages and its kmem cache.  The kmem
    cache might be serious, if kmem_cache_alloc(NULL, gfp) has problems; but
    the percpu dstmem pages are definitely a problem, as they're used as
    temporary buffer for compressed pages before copying into place in the
    zpool.
    
    If the user does get zswap enabled after an init failure, then zswap
    will likely Oops on the first page it tries to compress (or worse, start
    corrupting memory).
    
    Fixes: 90b0fc26 ("zswap: change zpool/compressor at runtime")
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170124200259.16191-2-ddstreet@ieee.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarDan Streetman <dan.streetman@canonical.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarMarcin Miroslaw <marcin@mejor.pl>
    Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
    Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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