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From: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>, Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
	Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>,
	Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>, Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
	Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm, swap: revalidate populated clusters before scanning
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:06:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019160615.2348500-1-nphamcs@gmail.com> (raw)

swap_cluster_populate() can publish a cluster's table with the cluster
lock dropped. A cached allocator can use and empty it before the
populating allocator reacquires the lock. The resumed scan can then
dereference a NULL table.

For example, CPU1 can retain a cached cluster offset on an SSD with
per-page discard disabled:

    CPU0                          CPU1
    ----                          ----
    swap_cluster_populate()
      swap_cluster_alloc_table() fails
      spin_unlock(&ci->lock)
      local_unlock(&percpu_swap_cluster.lock)
      swap_cluster_alloc_table()
        rcu_assign_pointer(ci->table, table)
                                  swap_alloc_fast()
                                  local_unlock(&percpu_swap_cluster.lock)
                                  mem_cgroup_try_charge_swap() fails
                                  swap_cache_del_folio()
                                    __swap_cluster_free_entries()
                                      free_cluster()
                                        __free_cluster()
                                          swap_cluster_free_table()
                                            rcu_assign_pointer(..., NULL)
      local_lock(&percpu_swap_cluster.lock)
      spin_lock(&ci->lock)
      return ci
    alloc_swap_scan_cluster()
      cluster_scan_range()
        __swap_table_get()

Reject an unusable cluster under its lock before scanning it. Relocate
it only while its table is present.

Fixes: cdd77f84d966 ("mm, swap: consolidate cluster allocation helpers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
---
 mm/swapfile.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index c3288910b3e3..988b7316e0a1 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -981,7 +981,11 @@ static unsigned int alloc_swap_scan_cluster(struct swap_info_struct *si,
 	bool need_reclaim, ret, usable;
 
 	lockdep_assert_held(&ci->lock);
-	VM_WARN_ON(!cluster_is_usable(ci, order));
+	if (!cluster_is_usable(ci, order)) {
+		if (cluster_table_is_alloced(ci))
+			relocate_cluster(si, ci);
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
 
 	if (end < nr_pages || ci->count + nr_pages > SWAPFILE_CLUSTER)
 		goto out;
@@ -1010,6 +1014,7 @@ static unsigned int alloc_swap_scan_cluster(struct swap_info_struct *si,
 	}
 out:
 	relocate_cluster(si, ci);
+out_unlock:
 	swap_cluster_unlock(ci);
 	if (si->flags & SWP_SOLIDSTATE) {
 		this_cpu_write(percpu_swap_cluster.offset[order], next);

base-commit: 4dbe24720eb3811563cd56b35d87ddf3f9beed2a
-- 
2.53.0-Meta


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-19 16:06 UTC|newest]

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2026-10-19 16:06 Nhat Pham [this message]
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