Re: [PATCH] swap: fix set_blocksize race during swapon/swapoff

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Oct 11 2013 - 14:55:48 EST


On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:54:22 +0200 Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Swapoff used old_block_size from swap_info which could be overwritten by
> concurrent swapon.

Better changelogs, please. What were the user-visible effects of the
bug, and how is it triggered?
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