Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:23:40 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/8] mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon |
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:03:04 +0800 Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com> wrote:
> 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 clear SWP_USED flag after all its resources freed, so that swapon > can reuse this swap_info by alloc_swap_info() safely. > > This patch is just for a rare scenario, aim to correct of code.
I believe that http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-swap-fix-race-on-swap_info-reuse-between-swapoff-and-swapon.patch makes this patch redundant?
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