[PATCH v2 1/3] mm, swap: ratelimit bad swap entry reports
From: Breno Leitao
Date: Thu Aug 13 2026 - 06:10:06 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.
swap_dup_entry_direct() prints the same message from the fork path, once
per call: the WARN_ON_ONCE() guarding it warns once, the pr_err() inside
does not.
Rate limit all three prints.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 4d4e3e3059f6b..31c8a340606bb 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;
}
@@ -3876,7 +3876,7 @@ int swap_dup_entry_direct(swp_entry_t entry)
si = swap_entry_to_info(entry);
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!si)) {
- pr_err("%s%08lx\n", Bad_file, entry.val);
+ pr_err_ratelimited("%s%08lx\n", Bad_file, entry.val);
return -EINVAL;
}
--
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