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mm, swap: always lock and check the swap cache folio before use

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Swap cache lookup only increases the reference count of the returned
folio.  That's not enough to ensure a folio is stable in the swap cache,
so the folio could be removed from the swap cache at any time.  The caller
should always lock and check the folio before using it.

We have just documented this in kerneldoc, now introduce a helper for swap
cache folio verification with proper sanity checks.

Also, sanitize a few current users to use this convention and the new
helper for easier debugging.  They were not having observable problems
yet, only trivial issues like wasted CPU cycles on swapoff or reclaiming. 
They would fail in some other way, but it is still better to always follow
this convention to make things robust and make later commits easier to do.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916160100.31545-6-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Kairui Song 2025-09-17 00:00:50 +08:00 • committed by Andrew Morton
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