[PATCH -mm] mm: fix race between swapoff and mincore

From: Huang, Ying
Date: Thu May 23 2019 - 04:57:06 EST


From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>

Via commit 4b3ef9daa4fc ("mm/swap: split swap cache into 64MB trunks") on,
after swapoff, the address_space associated with the swap device will be
freed. So swap_address_space() users which touch the address_space need
some kind of mechanism to prevent the address_space from being freed
during accessing.

When mincore process unmapped range for swapped shmem pages, it doesn't
hold the lock to prevent swap device from being swapoff. So the following
race is possible,

CPU1 CPU2
do_mincore() swapoff()
walk_page_range()
mincore_unmapped_range()
__mincore_unmapped_range
mincore_page
as = swap_address_space()
... exit_swap_address_space()
... kvfree(spaces)
find_get_page(as)

The address space may be accessed after being freed.

To fix the race, get_swap_device()/put_swap_device() is used to enclose
find_get_page() to check whether the swap entry is valid and prevent the
swap device from being swapoff during accessing.

Fixes: 4b3ef9daa4fc ("mm/swap: split swap cache into 64MB trunks")
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: JÃrÃme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mincore.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
index c3f058bd0faf..4fe91d497436 100644
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -68,8 +68,16 @@ static unsigned char mincore_page(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t pgoff)
*/
if (xa_is_value(page)) {
swp_entry_t swp = radix_to_swp_entry(page);
- page = find_get_page(swap_address_space(swp),
- swp_offset(swp));
+ struct swap_info_struct *si;
+
+ /* Prevent swap device to being swapoff under us */
+ si = get_swap_device(swp);
+ if (si) {
+ page = find_get_page(swap_address_space(swp),
+ swp_offset(swp));
+ put_swap_device(si);
+ } else
+ page = NULL;
}
} else
page = find_get_page(mapping, pgoff);
--
2.20.1