[PATCH] swap_readpage: avoid blk_wake_io_task() if !synchronous

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Jul 04 2019 - 12:03:19 EST


swap_readpage() sets waiter = bio->bi_private even if synchronous = F,
this means that the caller can get the spurious wakeup after return. This
can be fatal if blk_wake_io_task() does set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING)
after the caller does set_special_state(), in the worst case the kernel
can crash in do_task_dead().

Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_io.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c
index 2e8019d..3098895 100644
--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -140,8 +140,10 @@ static void end_swap_bio_read(struct bio *bio)
unlock_page(page);
WRITE_ONCE(bio->bi_private, NULL);
bio_put(bio);
- blk_wake_io_task(waiter);
- put_task_struct(waiter);
+ if (waiter) {
+ blk_wake_io_task(waiter);
+ put_task_struct(waiter);
+ }
}

int generic_swapfile_activate(struct swap_info_struct *sis,
@@ -398,11 +400,12 @@ int swap_readpage(struct page *page, bool synchronous)
* Keep this task valid during swap readpage because the oom killer may
* attempt to access it in the page fault retry time check.
*/
- get_task_struct(current);
- bio->bi_private = current;
bio_set_op_attrs(bio, REQ_OP_READ, 0);
- if (synchronous)
+ if (synchronous) {
bio->bi_opf |= REQ_HIPRI;
+ get_task_struct(current);
+ bio->bi_private = current;
+ }
count_vm_event(PSWPIN);
bio_get(bio);
qc = submit_bio(bio);
--
2.5.0