mm, swap: fix false error message in __swp_swapcount()
authorHuang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:33:15 +0000 (17:33 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:21:02 +0000 (18:21 -0800)
commite9a6effa500526e2a19d5ad042cb758b55b1ef93
tree76661a69d59b8b08d0717f2c68490a7c978dab9d
parentaa8d22a11da933dbf880b4933b58931f4aefe91c
mm, swap: fix false error message in __swp_swapcount()

When a page fault occurs for a swap entry, the physical swap readahead
(not the VMA base swap readahead) may readahead several swap entries
after the fault swap entry.  The readahead algorithm calculates some of
the swap entries to readahead via increasing the offset of the fault
swap entry without checking whether they are beyond the end of the swap
device and it relys on the __swp_swapcount() and swapcache_prepare() to
check it.  Although __swp_swapcount() checks for the swap entry passed
in, it will complain with the error message as follow for the expected
invalid swap entry.  This may make the end users confused.

  swap_info_get: Bad swap offset entry 0200f8a7

To fix the false error message, the swap entry checking is added in
swapin_readahead() to avoid to pass the out-of-bound swap entries and
the swap entry reserved for the swap header to __swp_swapcount() and
swapcache_prepare().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171102054225.22897-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Fixes: e8c26ab60598 ("mm/swap: skip readahead for unreferenced swap slots")
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.11+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/swap_state.c