swap: redirty page if page write fails on swap file
authorJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:08:47 +0000 (15:08 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0700)
commit093090ab99e32dce9fdda6c748e197d5d1b01224
tree09b7c5c89755cf32702075ed6806b1343da50c18
parenta908d9abd2684692ffa578f4542735115ed41f59
swap: redirty page if page write fails on swap file

Since commit 9482aed8fad2 ("mm: add support for a filesystem to activate
swap files and use direct_IO for writing swap pages"), swap_writepage()
calls direct_IO on swap files.  However, in that case the page isn't
redirtied if I/O fails, and is therefore handled afterwards as if it has
been successfully written to the swap file, leading to memory corruption
when the page is eventually swapped back in.

This patch sets the page dirty when direct_IO() fails.  It fixes a
memory corruption that happened while using swap-over-NFS.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.6+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_io.c