From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>,
Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>,
Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>,
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Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>,
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Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
"Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 12/15] mm/shmem: preserve allocation errors when swapping in large entries
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:55:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261028-fixes_shmem-v3-12-4ce3baf2db4b@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261028-fixes_shmem-v3-0-4ce3baf2db4b@kernel.org>
shmem_swapin_folio() adjusts swap to the requested slot within a large
swap entry before allocating a folio. If allocation or charging fails,
the error path compares this adjusted value with the original entry
still stored in the XArray in shmem_confirm_swap().
Unless the index is at the start of the entry, this turns -ENOMEM into
-EEXIST even though nothing changed.
The caller retries -EEXIST, so persistent allocation failures can leave
the task spinning instead of returning the error.
Restore swap to index_entry on allocation failure so the existing error
path checks the original entry. This preserves the allocation error if
the entry is unchanged and still retries if it changed concurrently.
Fixes: 91ab656ece13 ("mm/shmem, swap: tidy up swap entry splitting")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
---
mm/shmem.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 59907556369f..da2f5cd37eee 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2552,6 +2552,8 @@ static int shmem_swapin_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
else
error = -ENOMEM;
folio = NULL;
+ /* Make sure to validate the original value. */
+ swap = index_entry;
goto failed;
}
if (fault_type) {
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-28 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-28 9:54 [PATCH v3 00/15] mm/shmem: various (urgent?) fixes David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:54 ` [PATCH v3 01/15] mm/mempolicy: charge shared policy nodes David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 10:02 ` Balbir Singh
2026-10-28 10:06 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 02/15] tmpfs: keep the quota soft limits of an unused id David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 03/15] tmpfs: preserve explicitly disabled quota limits David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 04/15] mm/shmem: honour F_SEAL_EXEC when an ACL is set David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 10:06 ` Balbir Singh
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 05/15] hugetlbfs: enforce F_SEAL_EXEC in setattr David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 10:51 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 06/15] mm/shmem: hold off eviction in shmem_writeout() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 07/15] mm/shmem: stop retrying folios that cannot be split David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 08/15] mm/shmem: preserve data in clean folios when splitting fails David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 09/15] mm/shmem: discard whole new large folios on fallocate rollback David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 10/15] mm/shmem: rescan after nonuniform folio splitting David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 11/15] mm/shmem: fix truncate hang in large swap entry David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 13/15] mm/shmem: fix truncate loop after boundary swapin failure David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 14/15] mm/shmem: fix accounting of swapin-error markers David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 15/15] mm/shmem: fix truncation of files containing only " David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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