From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756013Ab3FPWL4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:11:56 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:46436 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755762Ab3FPWJP (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:09:15 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Linus Torvalds" , "Johannes Weiner" , "Hugh Dickins" , "Rafael Aquini" , "Shaohua Li" , "KOSAKI Motohiro" Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:01:38 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [76/83] swap: avoid read_swap_cache_async() race to deadlock while waiting on discard I/O completion In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.101 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.47-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Rafael Aquini commit cbab0e4eec299e9059199ebe6daf48730be46d2b upstream. read_swap_cache_async() can race against get_swap_page(), and stumble across a SWAP_HAS_CACHE entry in the swap map whose page wasn't brought into the swapcache yet. This transient swap_map state is expected to be transitory, but the actual placement of discard at scan_swap_map() inserts a wait for I/O completion thus making the thread at read_swap_cache_async() to loop around its -EEXIST case, while the other end at get_swap_page() is scheduled away at scan_swap_map(). This can leave the system deadlocked if the I/O completion happens to be waiting on the CPU waitqueue where read_swap_cache_async() is busy looping and !CONFIG_PREEMPT. This patch introduces a cond_resched() call to make the aforementioned read_swap_cache_async() busy loop condition to bail out when necessary, thus avoiding the subtle race window. Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/swap_state.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/swap_state.c +++ b/mm/swap_state.c @@ -314,8 +314,24 @@ struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_e * Swap entry may have been freed since our caller observed it. */ err = swapcache_prepare(entry); - if (err == -EEXIST) { /* seems racy */ + if (err == -EEXIST) { radix_tree_preload_end(); + /* + * We might race against get_swap_page() and stumble + * across a SWAP_HAS_CACHE swap_map entry whose page + * has not been brought into the swapcache yet, while + * the other end is scheduled away waiting on discard + * I/O completion at scan_swap_map(). + * + * In order to avoid turning this transitory state + * into a permanent loop around this -EEXIST case + * if !CONFIG_PREEMPT and the I/O completion happens + * to be waiting on the CPU waitqueue where we are now + * busy looping, we just conditionally invoke the + * scheduler here, if there are some more important + * tasks to run. + */ + cond_resched(); continue; } if (err) { /* swp entry is obsolete ? */