mm: try_to_unuse check removing right swap

There's a possible race in try_to_unuse() which Nick Piggin led me to two
years ago.  Where it does lock_page() after read_swap_cache_async(), what
if another task removed that page from swapcache just before we locked it?

It would sail though the (*swap_map > 1) tests doing nothing (because it
could not have been removed from swapcache before its swap references were
gone), until it reaches the delete_from_swap_cache(page) near the bottom.

Now imagine that this page has been allocated to swap on a different swap
area while we dropped page lock (perhaps at the top, perhaps in unuse_mm):
we could wrongly remove from swap cache before the page has been written
to swap, so a subsequent do_swap_page() would read in stale data from
swap.

I think this case could not happen before: remove_exclusive_swap_page()
refused while page count was raised.  But now with reuse_swap_page() and
try_to_free_swap() removing from swap cache without minding page count, I
think it could happen - the previous patch argued that it was safe because
try_to_unuse() already ignored page count, but overlooked that it might be
breaking the assumptions in try_to_unuse() itself.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index f436018..9ce7f81 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -889,7 +889,16 @@ static int try_to_unuse(unsigned int type)
                        lock_page(page);
                        wait_on_page_writeback(page);
                }
-               if (PageSwapCache(page))
+
+               /*
+                * It is conceivable that a racing task removed this page from
+                * swap cache just before we acquired the page lock at the top,
+                * or while we dropped it in unuse_mm().  The page might even
+                * be back in swap cache on another swap area: that we must not
+                * delete, since it may not have been written out to swap yet.
+                */
+               if (PageSwapCache(page) &&
+                   likely(page_private(page) == entry.val))
                        delete_from_swap_cache(page);
 
                /*