From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756032Ab3JKSzp (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:55:45 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44644 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752654Ab3JKSzo (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:55:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:55:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Weijie Yang , Bob Liu , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Shaohua Li , Minchan Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap: fix set_blocksize race during swapon/swapoff Message-Id: <20131011115542.a81a9215d9b876706ec58a72@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1381485262-16792-1-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com> References: <1381485262-16792-1-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:54:22 +0200 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > Swapoff used old_block_size from swap_info which could be overwritten by > concurrent swapon. Better changelogs, please. What were the user-visible effects of the bug, and how is it triggered?