[PATCH 1/3] mm, swap: ratelimit bad swap entry reports in get_swap_device()

From: Breno Leitao

Date: Mon Aug 10 2026 - 13:10:07 EST


A corrupt page table hands the same bogus entry to get_swap_device() on
every access to the mapping, and every rejection is logged. One machine
logged 6185620 copies of the same line in a few hours.

Rate limit both prints.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 4d4e3e3059f6b..9ab11dc24e4f1 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1899,11 +1899,11 @@ struct swap_info_struct *get_swap_device(swp_entry_t entry)

return si;
bad_nofile:
- pr_err("%s: %s%08lx\n", __func__, Bad_file, entry.val);
+ pr_err_ratelimited("%s: %s%08lx\n", __func__, Bad_file, entry.val);
out:
return NULL;
put_out:
- pr_err("%s: %s%08lx\n", __func__, Bad_offset, entry.val);
+ pr_err_ratelimited("%s: %s%08lx\n", __func__, Bad_offset, entry.val);
percpu_ref_put(&si->users);
return NULL;
}

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