linux/include
Nhat Pham ff22f9299d page_io: zswap: do not crash the kernel on decompression failure
Currently, we crash the kernel when a decompression failure occurs in
zswap (either because of memory corruption, or a bug in the compression
algorithm).  This is overkill.  We should only SIGBUS the unfortunate
process asking for the zswap entry on zswap load, and skip the corrupted
entry in zswap writeback.

See [1] for a recent upstream discussion about this.

The zswap writeback case is relatively straightforward to fix.  For the
zswap_load() case, we change the return behavior:

* Return 0 on success.
* Return -ENOENT (with the folio locked) if zswap does not own the
  swapped out content.
* Return -EIO if zswap owns the swapped out content, but encounters a
  decompression failure for some reasons. The folio will be unlocked,
  but not be marked up-to-date, which will eventually cause the process
  requesting the page to SIGBUS (see the handling of not-up-to-date
  folio in do_swap_page() in mm/memory.c), without crashing the kernel.
* Return -EINVAL if we encounter a large folio, as large folio should
  not be swapped in while zswap is being used. Similar to the -EIO case,
  we also unlock the folio but do not mark it as up-to-date to SIGBUS
  the faulting process.

As a side effect, we require one extra zswap tree traversal in the load
and writeback paths.  Quick benchmarking on a kernel build test shows no
performance difference:

With the new scheme:
real: mean: 125.1s, stdev: 0.12s
user: mean: 3265.23s, stdev: 9.62s
sys: mean: 2156.41s, stdev: 13.98s

The old scheme:
real: mean: 125.78s, stdev: 0.45s
user: mean: 3287.18s, stdev: 5.95s
sys: mean: 2177.08s, stdev: 26.52s

[nphamcs@gmail.com: fix documentation of zswap_load()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250306222453.1269456-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZsiLElTykamcYZ6J@casper.infradead.org/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250306205011.784787-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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acpi LoongArch changes for v6.14 2025-01-28 08:52:01 -08:00
asm-generic mm/ioremap: pass pgprot_t to ioremap_prot() instead of unsigned long 2025-03-16 22:06:23 -07:00
clocksource KVM/arm64 updates for 6.14 2025-01-28 09:01:36 -08:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - document skcipher_walk_done() and rename some vars 2025-01-14 11:38:32 +08:00
cxl cxl/events: Update Memory Module Event Record to CXL spec rev 3.1 2025-01-13 09:33:21 -07:00
drm drm: Fix DSC BPP increment decoding 2025-02-13 10:20:30 +02:00
dt-bindings dt-bindings: clock: qcom: Add CAMCC clocks for QCS8300 2025-02-02 20:59:04 -06:00
hyperv hyperv: Add new Hyper-V headers in include/hyperv 2025-01-10 00:54:20 +00:00
keys keys: drop shadowing dead prototype 2025-01-21 11:25:23 +02:00
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linux page_io: zswap: do not crash the kernel on decompression failure 2025-03-17 22:06:50 -07:00
math-emu powerpc/math-emu: Remove -w build flag and fix warnings 2022-09-05 17:28:25 +10:00
media media: cec: include linux/debugfs.h and linux/seq_file.h where needed 2025-01-07 12:21:38 +01:00
memory memory: renesas-rpc-if: Remove Runtime PM wrappers 2023-01-23 11:48:00 +01:00
misc cxl: fix typo in comment 2022-11-24 23:12:19 +11:00
net percpu: use TYPEOF_UNQUAL() in variable declarations 2025-03-16 22:05:53 -07:00
pcmcia ARM: pxa/sa1100: move I/O space to PCI_IOBASE 2022-05-07 22:56:17 +02:00
ras mm/memory-failure: remove obsolete MF_MSG_DIFFERENT_COMPOUND 2024-07-12 15:52:22 -07:00
rdma RDMA/core: Support link status events dispatching 2024-12-24 05:22:18 -05:00
rv rv: Reset per-task monitors also for idle tasks 2025-01-23 12:16:04 -05:00
scsi Driver core and debugfs updates 2025-01-28 12:25:12 -08:00
soc soc: driver updates for 6.14 2025-01-24 14:56:59 -08:00
sound ASoC: cs35l56: Prevent races when soft-resetting using SPI control 2025-02-25 15:06:58 +00:00
target scsi: target: iscsi: switch to using the crc32c library 2024-12-01 17:23:02 -08:00
trace writeback: fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb 2025-03-17 00:05:37 -07:00
uapi Landlock fix for v6.14-rc5 2025-02-26 11:55:44 -08:00
ufs scsi: ufs: core: Fix use-after free in init error and remove paths 2025-02-03 17:20:01 -05:00
vdso vdso: Correct typo in PAGE_SHIFT comment 2025-01-15 11:07:08 +01:00
video - Improved handling of LCD power states and interactions with the fbdev subsystem. 2024-11-22 16:29:57 -08:00
xen xen: Remove dependency between pciback and privcmd 2024-10-18 11:59:04 +02:00