Re: [PATCH] page_cgroup: fix horrid swap accounting regression

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Thu Mar 08 2012 - 01:01:38 EST


On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 20:52:55 -0800 (PST)
Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why is memcg's swap accounting so broken? Insane counts, wrong ownership,
> unfreeable structures, which later get freed and then accessed after free.
>
> Turns out to be a tiny a little 3.3-rc1 regression in 9fb4b7cc0724
> "page_cgroup: add helper function to get swap_cgroup": the helper
> function (actually named lookup_swap_cgroup()) returns an address
> using void* arithmetic, but the structure in question is a short.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you for testing/fixes.

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>
> mm/page_cgroup.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- 3.3-rc6/mm/page_cgroup.c 2012-01-20 08:42:35.320020840 -0800
> +++ linux/mm/page_cgroup.c 2012-03-05 19:51:13.535372098 -0800
> @@ -379,13 +379,15 @@ static struct swap_cgroup *lookup_swap_c
> pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(ent);
> struct swap_cgroup_ctrl *ctrl;
> struct page *mappage;
> + struct swap_cgroup *sc;
>
> ctrl = &swap_cgroup_ctrl[swp_type(ent)];
> if (ctrlp)
> *ctrlp = ctrl;
>
> mappage = ctrl->map[offset / SC_PER_PAGE];
> - return page_address(mappage) + offset % SC_PER_PAGE;
> + sc = page_address(mappage);
> + return sc + offset % SC_PER_PAGE;
> }
>
> /**
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