From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8429C46495 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2019 19:32:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B51218A4 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2019 19:32:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1562268741; bh=sDn9pqNnZNQls6TlQC0E4i4OA5fVIAHZsv1mK7QjuUU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=a0k73EEuuuImaqCrpdw/1vVQ4H77h5GDD7TPfhjHdwmLPl7rxM6hUBDItcy9Q3EIU 3zPlzukjuJmoeiUzinfpN0DunzNNwg3h8NCcbhXNN4EeJP/M2vhs3E05tHiNfKZqgH bi0eDGjn4/1fZXVn80HjL7LPE91ntX0XTqpWGxqY= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727159AbfGDTcU (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jul 2019 15:32:20 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52076 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725865AbfGDTcU (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jul 2019 15:32:20 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-73-223-200-170.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.223.200.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D707D2189E; Thu, 4 Jul 2019 19:32:18 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1562268739; bh=sDn9pqNnZNQls6TlQC0E4i4OA5fVIAHZsv1mK7QjuUU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=xLYlLoVcNxDZe4xjXUvwx/phI6Gk2I2s1MqHsJnhvK2dhiM5vmmOgxqD3KpPOq1GI YZNDgDS+RHGtv/QAuLWVM4LeZoRGCgQfTba6bUvfTmu8bvT07N8/18ASofU5gvPZM6 qTzELQghgD4BvffARvPi77TQK27tSY7dRePWiBGY= Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 12:32:18 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Qian Cai , axboe@kernel.dk, hch@lst.de, peterz@infradead.org, gkohli@codeaurora.org, mingo@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap_readpage: avoid blk_wake_io_task() if !synchronous Message-Id: <20190704123218.87a763f771efad158e1b0a89@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20190704160301.GA5956@redhat.com> References: <1559161526-618-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw> <20190704160301.GA5956@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; 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 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 18:03:01 +0200 Oleg Nesterov wrote: > swap_readpage() sets waiter = bio->bi_private even if synchronous = F, > this means that the caller can get the spurious wakeup after return. This > can be fatal if blk_wake_io_task() does set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING) > after the caller does set_special_state(), in the worst case the kernel > can crash in do_task_dead(). I think we need a Fixes: and a cc:stable here? IIRC, we're fixing 0619317ff8baa2 ("block: add polled wakeup task helper").