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    staging: zcache: fix cleancache race condition with shrinker · 6d7d9798
    Seth Jennings authored
    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: default avatarSeth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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