[PATCH] mm, swap: ratelimit bad swap entry reports
From: Breno Leitao
Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 05:08:17 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.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 23b230ba8ac3 ("mm/swap: print bad swap offset entry in get_swap_device")
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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 dacef34a3ed7a..53bf01d5f7f11 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;
}
@@ -3883,7 +3883,7 @@ 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;
}
---
base-commit: e6664f2b33db9b6811eb4cec109f06cb2b4f458d
change-id: 20260818-swap_part_one-1ad0fe65809e
Best regards,
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Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>