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The flag SWP_SCANNING was used as an indicator of whether a device is being scanned for allocation, and prevents swapoff. Combined with SWP_WRITEOK, they work as a set of barriers for a clean swapoff: 1. Swapoff clears SWP_WRITEOK, allocation requests will see ~SWP_WRITEOK and abort as it's serialized by si->lock. 2. Swapoff unuses all allocated entries. 3. Swapoff waits for SWP_SCANNING flag to be cleared, so ongoing allocations will stop, preventing UAF. 4. Now swapoff can free everything safely. This will make the allocation path have a hard dependency on si->lock. Allocation always have to acquire si->lock first for setting SWP_SCANNING and checking SWP_WRITEOK. This commit removes this flag, and just uses the existing per-CPU refcount instead to prevent UAF in step 3, which serves well for such usage without dependency on si->lock, and scales very well too. Just hold a reference during the whole scan and allocation process. Swapoff will kill and wait for the counter. And for preventing any allocation from happening after step 1 so the unuse in step 2 can ensure all slots are free, swapoff will acquire the ci->lock of each cluster one by one to ensure all allocations see ~SWP_WRITEOK and abort. This way these dependences on si->lock are gone. And worth noting we can't kill the refcount as the first step for swapoff as the unuse process have to acquire the refcount. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250113175732.48099-8-ryncsn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Cc: Chis Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.