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Kemeng Shi f7c75406b7 mm: swap: correctly use maxpages in swapon syscall to avoid potential deadloop 
commit 255116c5b0 upstream.

We use maxpages from read_swap_header() to initialize swap_info_struct,
however the maxpages might be reduced in setup_swap_extents() and the
si->max is assigned with the reduced maxpages from the
setup_swap_extents().

Obviously, this could lead to memory waste as we allocated memory based on
larger maxpages, besides, this could lead to a potential deadloop as
following:

1) When calling setup_clusters() with larger maxpages, unavailable
   pages within range [si->max, larger maxpages) are not accounted with
   inc_cluster_info_page().  As a result, these pages are assumed
   available but can not be allocated.  The cluster contains these pages
   can be moved to frag_clusters list after it's all available pages were
   allocated.

2) When the cluster mentioned in 1) is the only cluster in
   frag_clusters list, cluster_alloc_swap_entry() assume order 0
   allocation will never failed and will enter a deadloop by keep trying
   to allocate page from the only cluster in frag_clusters which contains
   no actually available page.

Call setup_swap_extents() to get the final maxpages before
swap_info_struct initialization to fix the issue.

After this change, span will include badblocks and will become large
value which I think is correct value:
In summary, there are two kinds of swapfile_activate operations.

1. Filesystem style: Treat all blocks logical continuity and find
   usable physical extents in logical range.  In this way, si->pages will
   be actual usable physical blocks and span will be "1 + highest_block -
   lowest_block".

2. Block device style: Treat all blocks physically continue and only
   one single extent is added.  In this way, si->pages will be si->max and
   span will be "si->pages - 1".  Actually, si->pages and si->max is only
   used in block device style and span value is set with si->pages.  As a
   result, span value in block device style will become a larger value as
   you mentioned.

I think larger value is correct based on:

1. Span value in filesystem style is "1 + highest_block -
   lowest_block" which is the range cover all possible phisical blocks
   including the badblocks.

2. For block device style, si->pages is the actual usable block number
   and is already in pr_info.  The original span value before this patch
   is also refer to usable block number which is redundant in pr_info.

[shikemeng@huaweicloud.com: ensure si->pages == si->max - 1 after setup_swap_extents()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250522122554.12209-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250718065139.61989-1-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250522122554.12209-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 661383c611 ("mm: swap: relaim the cached parts that got scanned")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.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 2025-08-15 12:14:14 +02:00
arch MIPS: mm: tlb-r4k: Uniquify TLB entries on init 2025-08-15 12:14:13 +02:00
block block: ensure discard_granularity is zero when discard is not supported 2025-08-15 12:14:05 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: ecdsa - Harden against integer overflows in DIV_ROUND_UP() 2025-07-17 18:37:24 +02:00
Documentation netlink: specs: ethtool: fix module EEPROM input/output arguments 2025-08-15 12:14:05 +02:00
drivers platform/x86/intel/pmt: fix a crashlog NULL pointer access 2025-08-15 12:14:13 +02:00
fs smb: server: Fix extension string in ksmbd_extract_shortname() 2025-08-15 12:14:11 +02:00
include net: usbnet: Avoid potential RCU stall on LINK_CHANGE event 2025-08-15 12:14:12 +02:00
init io_uring: fix breakage in EXPERT menu 2025-08-15 12:13:32 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/poll: fix POLLERR handling 2025-07-24 08:56:23 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel perf/core: Prevent VMA split of buffer mappings 2025-08-15 12:14:09 +02:00
lib lib/alloc_tag: do not acquire non-existent lock in alloc_tag_top_users() 2025-07-17 18:37:14 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm: swap: correctly use maxpages in swapon syscall to avoid potential deadloop 2025-08-15 12:14:14 +02:00
net vsock: Do not allow binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY 2025-08-15 12:14:09 +02:00
rust rust: use #[used(compiler)] to fix build and modpost with Rust >= 1.89.0 2025-07-24 08:56:37 +02:00
samples samples: mei: Fix building on musl libc 2025-08-15 12:13:38 +02:00
scripts kconfig: qconf: fix ConfigList::updateListAllforAll() 2025-08-15 12:14:03 +02:00
security apparmor: Fix unaligned memory accesses in KUnit test 2025-08-15 12:13:59 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix mute LED for HP Victus 16-d1xxx (MB 8A26) 2025-08-15 12:14:13 +02:00
tools selftests/bpf: Fix build error with llvm 19 2025-08-15 12:14:10 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-13 13:02:18 +01:00
virt KVM: Allow CPU to reschedule while setting per-page memory attributes 2025-07-17 18:37:08 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -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 self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
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 MAINTAINERS: Update Alexey Makhalov's email address 2025-05-22 14:29:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.41 2025-08-01 09:48:47 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -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 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.