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mm/mincore.c: fix race between swapoff and mincore
Via commit 4b3ef9d ("mm/swap: split swap cache into 64MB trunks"), after swapoff, the address_space associated with the swap device will be freed. So swap_address_space() users which touch the address_space need some kind of mechanism to prevent the address_space from being freed during accessing. When mincore processes an unmapped range for swapped shmem pages, it doesn't hold the lock to prevent swap device from being swapped off. So the following race is possible: CPU1 CPU2 do_mincore() swapoff() walk_page_range() mincore_unmapped_range() __mincore_unmapped_range mincore_page as = swap_address_space() ... exit_swap_address_space() ... kvfree(spaces) find_get_page(as) The address space may be accessed after being freed. To fix the race, get_swap_device()/put_swap_device() is used to enclose find_get_page() to check whether the swap entry is valid and prevent the swap device from being swapoff during accessing. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 4b3ef9d ("mm/swap: split swap cache into 64MB trunks") Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Yang Shi <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Jiang <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Jordan <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Parri <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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