From: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] zswap: do not free the entry if its pool is NULL
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:37:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avNIFZ0XVgOUdpDc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261110054836.1515030-8-senozhatsky@chromium.org>
On Tue, Nov 10, 2026 at 02:48:12PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> zswap_entry_free() warns if the entry has no pool (which should never
> happen), skips zs_free() and then frees the entry. A subsequent patch
> embeds zsmalloc handle into zswap_entry, so zsmalloc object will point
> to the entry, and we cannot free the entry while the object is still
> there.
>
> Bail out early and leak the entry, its cgroup charge and stats instead.
>
> Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
> ---
> mm/zswap.c | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> index 1160bd34e289..dc0400d7e1a3 100644
> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -787,10 +787,11 @@ static void zswap_entry_free(struct zswap_entry *entry)
> struct zswap_pool *pool = zswap_entry_pool(entry);
>
> zswap_lru_del(entry);
> - if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!pool)) {
> - zs_free(pool->zs_pool, entry->handle);
> - zswap_pool_put(pool);
> - }
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!pool))
> + return;
> +
> + zs_free(pool->zs_pool, entry->handle);
> + zswap_pool_put(pool);
> if (entry->objcg) {
> obj_cgroup_uncharge_zswap(entry->objcg, entry->length);
> obj_cgroup_put(entry->objcg);
> --
> 2.56.0.506.g506a7eabc5-goog
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 5:48 [PATCH v2 00/11] zsmalloc: redesign object alloc API Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] zram: drop stale comment in write_incompressible_page() Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] zram: drop get_slot_handle() and set_slot_handle() Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] zsmalloc: return handle from obj_allocated() Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 16:28 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] zsmalloc: switch handle type to struct zs_handle Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 16:35 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] zram: check mem_limit before allocating zsmalloc object Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] zram: allocate zsmalloc object under slot lock Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] zswap: do not free the entry if its pool is NULL Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 16:37 ` Yosry Ahmed [this message]
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] zsmalloc: encode 1-based obj_idx so valid obj is never 0 Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 16:44 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] zsmalloc: embed struct zs_handle into zram and zswap entries Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 16:57 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] zsmalloc: fold zs_obj_write() into zs_store() Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 17:00 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 5:48 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] zsmalloc: populate new zspage outside class->lock in zs_store() Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-11-10 17:03 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-11-10 16:16 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] zsmalloc: redesign object alloc API Yosry Ahmed
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