Memory allocations can happen before the swap_slots cache initialization
is completed during cpu bring up. If we are low on memory, we could
call get_swap_page() and access swap_slots_cache before it is fully
initialized.
Add a check in get_swap_page() for initialized swap_slots_cache to
prevent this condition. Similar check already exists in free_swap_slot.
Also annotate the checks to indicate the likely condition.
We also added a memory barrier to make sure that the locks
initialization are done before the assignment of cache->slots and
cache->slots_ret pointers. This ensures the assumption that it is safe
to acquire the slots cache locks and use the slots cache when the
corresponding cache->slots or cache->slots_ret pointers are non null.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello in comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/65a9d0f133f63e66bba37b53b2fd0464b7cae771.1500677066.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Wenwei Tao <wenwei.tww@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
cache->nr = 0;
cache->cur = 0;
cache->n_ret = 0;
+ /*
+ * We initialized alloc_lock and free_lock earlier. We use
+ * !cache->slots or !cache->slots_ret to know if it is safe to acquire
+ * the corresponding lock and use the cache. Memory barrier below
+ * ensures the assumption.
+ */
+ mb();
cache->slots = slots;
slots = NULL;
cache->slots_ret = slots_ret;
struct swap_slots_cache *cache;
cache = raw_cpu_ptr(&swp_slots);
- if (use_swap_slot_cache && cache->slots_ret) {
+ if (likely(use_swap_slot_cache && cache->slots_ret)) {
spin_lock_irq(&cache->free_lock);
/* Swap slots cache may be deactivated before acquiring lock */
if (!use_swap_slot_cache || !cache->slots_ret) {
*/
cache = raw_cpu_ptr(&swp_slots);
- if (check_cache_active()) {
+ if (likely(check_cache_active() && cache->slots)) {
mutex_lock(&cache->alloc_lock);
if (cache->slots) {
repeat: