[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From c6889fdbc14498d9cb4a05a1b38bdb9066471e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang at samsung.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:04:23 -0800
Subject: mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon

commit f893ab41e4dae2fe8991faf5d86d029068d1ef3a upstream.

swapoff clear swap_info's SWP_USED flag prematurely and free its
resources after that.  A concurrent swapon will reuse this swap_info
while its previous resources are not cleared completely.

These late freed resources are:
 - p->percpu_cluster
 - swap_cgroup_ctrl[type]
 - block_device setting
 - inode->i_flags &= ~S_SWAPFILE

This patch clears the SWP_USED flag after all its resources are freed,
so that swapon can reuse this swap_info by alloc_swap_info() safely.

[akpm at linux-foundation.org: tidy up code comment]
Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang at samsung.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.11: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 mm/swapfile.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 6cf2e60..d58fe88 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1675,7 +1675,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 	p->max = 0;
 	swap_map = p->swap_map;
 	p->swap_map = NULL;
-	p->flags = 0;
 	frontswap_map = frontswap_map_get(p);
 	frontswap_map_set(p, NULL);
 	spin_unlock(&p->lock);
@@ -1698,6 +1697,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 		mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	}
 	filp_close(swap_file, NULL);
+
+	/*
+	 * Clear the SWP_USED flag after all resources are freed so that swapon
+	 * can reuse this swap_info in alloc_swap_info() safely.  It is ok to
+	 * not hold p->lock after we cleared its SWP_WRITEOK.
+	 */
+	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
+	p->flags = 0;
+	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
+
 	err = 0;
 	atomic_inc(&proc_poll_event);
 	wake_up_interruptible(&proc_poll_wait);
--
1.8.3.2