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Domenico Cerasuolo 2cab13f500 mm: fix zswap writeback race condition 
commit 04fc781608 upstream.

The zswap writeback mechanism can cause a race condition resulting in
memory corruption, where a swapped out page gets swapped in with data that
was written to a different page.

The race unfolds like this:
1. a page with data A and swap offset X is stored in zswap
2. page A is removed off the LRU by zpool driver for writeback in
   zswap-shrink work, data for A is mapped by zpool driver
3. user space program faults and invalidates page entry A, offset X is
   considered free
4. kswapd stores page B at offset X in zswap (zswap could also be
   full, if so, page B would then be IOed to X, then skip step 5.)
5. entry A is replaced by B in tree->rbroot, this doesn't affect the
   local reference held by zswap-shrink work
6. zswap-shrink work writes back A at X, and frees zswap entry A
7. swapin of slot X brings A in memory instead of B

The fix:
Once the swap page cache has been allocated (case ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NEW),
zswap-shrink work just checks that the local zswap_entry reference is
still the same as the one in the tree.  If it's not the same it means that
it's either been invalidated or replaced, in both cases the writeback is
aborted because the local entry contains stale data.

Reproducer:
I originally found this by running `stress` overnight to validate my work
on the zswap writeback mechanism, it manifested after hours on my test
machine.  The key to make it happen is having zswap writebacks, so
whatever setup pumps /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/written_back_pages should do
the trick.

In order to reproduce this faster on a vm, I setup a system with ~100M of
available memory and a 500M swap file, then running `stress --vm 1
--vm-bytes 300000000 --vm-stride 4000` makes it happen in matter of tens
of minutes.  One can speed things up even more by swinging
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/max_pool_percent up and down between, say, 20
and 1; this makes it reproduce in tens of seconds.  It's crucial to set
`--vm-stride` to something other than 4096 otherwise `stress` won't
realize that memory has been corrupted because all pages would have the
same data.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503151200.19707-1-cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Li (Google) <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2023-05-24 17:32:51 +01:00
arch parisc: Replace regular spinlock with spin_trylock on panic path 2023-05-24 17:32:42 +01:00
block block, bfq: Fix division by zero error on zero wsum 2023-05-24 17:32:38 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: jitter - permanent and intermittent health errors 2023-05-24 17:32:38 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: display/msm: dsi-controller-main: Document qcom, master-dsi and qcom, sync-dual-dsi 2023-05-24 17:32:43 +01:00
drivers wifi: rtw88: use work to update rate to avoid RCU warning 2023-05-24 17:32:50 +01:00
fs statfs: enforce statfs[64] structure initialization 2023-05-24 17:32:51 +01:00
include SUNRPC: always free ctxt when freeing deferred request 2023-05-24 17:32:45 +01:00
init gcc: disable '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-13 too 2023-04-26 14:28:43 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/rsrc: use nospec'ed indexes 2023-05-11 23:03:24 +09:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel bpf: Add preempt_count_{sub,add} into btf id deny list 2023-05-24 17:32:38 +01:00
lib maple_tree: make maple state reusable after mas_empty_area() 2023-05-24 17:32:51 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: fix zswap writeback race condition 2023-05-24 17:32:51 +01:00
net can: isotp: recvmsg(): allow MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag 2023-05-24 17:32:49 +01:00
rust rust: kernel: Mark rust_fmt_argument as extern "C" 2023-04-26 14:28:38 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix fout leak in hbm's run_bpf_prog 2023-05-24 17:32:38 +01:00
scripts recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function 2023-05-24 17:32:41 +01:00
security selinux: ensure av_permissions.h is built when needed 2023-05-11 23:03:06 +09:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute and micmute LEDs for yet another HP laptop 2023-05-24 17:32:49 +01:00
tools net: selftests: Fix optstring 2023-05-24 17:32:48 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM: Fix vcpu_array[0] races 2023-05-24 17:32:50 +01:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS platform/x86: Move existing HP drivers to a new hp subdir 2023-05-24 17:32:42 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.29 2023-05-17 11:54:00 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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 Restructured Text 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.