swap: divide-by-zero when zero length swap file on ssd
authorTom Abraham <tabraham@suse.com>
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:29:48 +0000 (16:29 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 30 May 2018 05:52:23 +0000 (07:52 +0200)
commit2ab7738102ad2ac77f1afafe916accff5683e9b2
treeda7ed171008382e621183cd5eb21bb684adbf5b4
parent9c9844d9c9d042df472dddae5a042d963cfc603f
swap: divide-by-zero when zero length swap file on ssd

[ Upstream commit a06ad633a37c64a0cd4c229fc605cee8725d376e ]

Calling swapon() on a zero length swap file on SSD can lead to a
divide-by-zero.

Although creating such files isn't possible with mkswap and they woud be
considered invalid, it would be better for the swapon code to be more
robust and handle this condition gracefully (return -EINVAL).
Especially since the fix is small and straightforward.

To help with wear leveling on SSD, the swapon syscall calculates a
random position in the swap file using modulo p->highest_bit, which is
set to maxpages - 1 in read_swap_header.

If the swap file is zero length, read_swap_header sets maxpages=1 and
last_page=0, resulting in p->highest_bit=0 and we divide-by-zero when we
modulo p->highest_bit in swapon syscall.

This can be prevented by having read_swap_header return zero if
last_page is zero.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5AC747C1020000A7001FA82C@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Abraham <tabraham@suse.com>
Reported-by: <Mark.Landis@Teradata.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/swapfile.c