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From: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org, chrisl@kernel.org,
	kasong@tencent.com, nphamcs@gmail.com, baohua@kernel.org,
	youngjun.park@lge.com, corbet@lwn.net, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	chengming.zhou@linux.dev, kunwu.chan@gmail.com,
	klarasmodin@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH v5 12/19] mm, swap: let swapoff destroy xswap devices by name
Date: Mon,  9 Nov 2026 13:54:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261109055455.536925-13-baoquan.he@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261109055455.536925-1-baoquan.he@linux.dev>

From: Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>

An xswap device has no backing file, so /proc/swaps shows a synthetic
name, xswap<id>, that file_open_name() cannot open. Teach swapoff to
fall back to xswap_destroy() when the name is exactly "xswap<digits>"
and the lookup failed with -ENOENT.

A real file or directory keeps precedence; other open errors are
returned unchanged, so a file that exists but cannot be opened is not
mistaken for an xswap device. The ABI documentation is updated, and
the destroy attribute remains the unambiguous teardown interface.

A well-formed name for an id that does not exist asks xswap_destroy()
for a device that is not there. It returns -ENODEV; map that to
-ENOENT so swapoff reports a missing name like it does for a missing
file.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
---
 .../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-xswap         | 11 +++-
 mm/swapfile.c                                 | 56 ++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-xswap b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-xswap
index 38eead0b1b31..f7e7f3e4d216 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-xswap
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-xswap
@@ -9,9 +9,14 @@ Description:	File-less swap devices backed by zswap.
 		for the lifetime of the device.
 
 		The name shown in /proc/swaps, xswap<id>, is synthetic and
-		is not a path.  It cannot be passed to swapoff(2), so
-		swapoff -a reports an error for these entries.  Use the
-		destroy attribute instead.
+		is not a path. swapoff(2) accepts it, so both "swapoff
+		xswap<id>" and swapoff -a tear the device down. A real
+		file or directory with that name takes precedence: if it
+		opens, it is looked up as a swap file and the synthetic
+		device is not used. Only a name that cannot be opened
+		because it does not exist, including a dangling symlink,
+		is treated as an xswap device. Use the destroy attribute
+		for an unambiguous teardown.
 
 		An xswap device requires zswap.  Disabling zswap at runtime
 		(enabled=0, or max_pool_percent=0) while xswap devices
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index cb53f9415de8..7b1d16226b7b 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/capability.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
 #include <linux/poll.h>
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ static int xswap_mapped_end(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *data);
 
 static int xswap_create(int prio);
 static int xswap_destroy(u64 id);
+static int xswap_destroy_by_name(const char *name);
 
 /* Stable device id, assigned at create and never reused. */
 static atomic64_t xswap_id_counter = ATOMIC64_INIT(0);
@@ -275,6 +277,11 @@ static void xswap_sysfs_init(void)
 static inline void xswap_sysfs_init(void)
 {
 }
+
+static inline int xswap_destroy_by_name(const char *name)
+{
+	return -ENOENT;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_XSWAP */
 
 static void swap_range_alloc(struct swap_info_struct *si,
@@ -3513,8 +3520,21 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 
 	CLASS(filename, pathname)(specialfile);
 	victim = file_open_name(pathname, O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE, 0);
-	if (IS_ERR(victim))
-		return PTR_ERR(victim);
+	if (IS_ERR(victim)) {
+		/*
+		 * An xswap device has no file, so /proc/swaps shows a name
+		 * that cannot be opened. Accept it here so swapoff -a works.
+		 * Only a missing name is taken for a device; a real file or
+		 * directory that failed for another reason must not match.
+		 */
+		if (PTR_ERR(victim) != -ENOENT)
+			return PTR_ERR(victim);
+
+		err = xswap_destroy_by_name(pathname->name);
+		if (err == -ENOENT)
+			return PTR_ERR(victim);
+		return err;
+	}
 
 	mapping = victim->f_mapping;
 	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
@@ -4504,6 +4524,38 @@ static int xswap_destroy(u64 id)
 
 	return __swapoff(p);
 }
+
+static int xswap_destroy_by_name(const char *name)
+{
+	const char *p;
+	char buf[24];
+	u64 id;
+	int err;
+
+	/* Strictly "xswap<digits>": no sign, no trailing newline. */
+	if (strncmp(name, "xswap", 5))
+		return -ENOENT;
+
+	p = name + 5;
+	if (!isdigit((unsigned char)*p))
+		return -ENOENT;
+	while (isdigit((unsigned char)*p))
+		p++;
+	if (*p)
+		return -ENOENT;
+
+	if (strscpy(buf, name + 5, sizeof(buf)) < 0)
+		return -ENOENT;
+
+	err = kstrtou64(buf, 10, &id);
+	if (err)
+		return -ENOENT;
+
+	err = xswap_destroy(id);
+	if (err == -ENODEV)
+		return -ENOENT;
+	return err;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_XSWAP */
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-09  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-09  5:54 [PATCH v5 00/19] mm, swap: extendable swap devices (xswap phase I) Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 01/19] mm: xswap support for zswap Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 02/19] mm, swap: refactor free_swap_cluster_info to take swap_info_struct Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 03/19] mm, swap: add VM_SPARSE cluster-array helpers for xswap Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 04/19] mm, swap: use a VM_SPARSE cluster array for xswap devices Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 05/19] mm, swap: widen swap_info_struct max/pages to unsigned long Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 06/19] mm, swap: add a sysfs interface to create xswap devices Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 07/19] mm, swap: refactor swapoff and add xswap_destroy Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 08/19] mm, swap: require zswap for xswap devices Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 09/19] mm, swap: use a stable id " Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 10/19] mm, swap: let the command line set the xswap device size Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 11/19] mm, swap: add CONFIG_XSWAP_DEFAULT_MAX Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` Baoquan He [this message]
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 13/19] mm, swap: add xswap grow trigger on cluster allocation Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 14/19] mm, swap: add debugfs counters for xswap Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 15/19] mm, swap: make xswap cluster_info accesses RCU-safe Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 16/19] mm, swap: prepare xswap_unmap_clusters for range shrinking Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 17/19] mm, swap: add xswap shrink trigger and defer it to a workqueue Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 18/19] mm, swap: do not give an xswap slot to a cgroup that cannot zswap Baoquan He
2026-11-09  5:54 ` [PATCH v5 19/19] mm, swap: skip the overcommit probe when removing xswap Baoquan He
2026-11-09  6:15 ` [PATCH v5 00/19] mm, swap: extendable swap devices (xswap phase I) Baoquan He

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