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    mm, swap: Fix a race in free_swap_and_cache() · 322b8afe
    Huang Ying authored
    Before using cluster lock in free_swap_and_cache(), the
    swap_info_struct->lock will be held during freeing the swap entry and
    acquiring page lock, so the page swap count will not change when testing
    page information later.  But after using cluster lock, the cluster lock
    (or swap_info_struct->lock) will be held only during freeing the swap
    entry.  So before acquiring the page lock, the page swap count may be
    changed in another thread.  If the page swap count is not 0, we should
    not delete the page from the swap cache.  This is fixed via checking
    page swap count again after acquiring the page lock.
    
    I found the race when I review the code, so I didn't trigger the race
    via a test program.  If the race occurs for an anonymous page shared by
    multiple processes via fork, multiple pages will be allocated and
    swapped in from the swap device for the previously shared one page.
    That is, the user-visible runtime effect is more memory will be used and
    the access latency for the page will be higher, that is, the performance
    regression.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301143905.12846-1-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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