https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Revision fb993fa1a2f669215fa03a09eed7848f2663e336 authored by Weijie Yang on 02 December 2014, 23:59:25 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 03 December 2014, 01:32:07 UTC
If a frontswap dup-store failed, it should invalidate the expired page
in the backend, or it could trigger some data corruption issue.
Such as:
 1. use zswap as the frontswap backend with writeback feature
 2. store a swap page(version_1) to entry A, success
 3. dup-store a newer page(version_2) to the same entry A, fail
 4. use __swap_writepage() write version_2 page to swapfile, success
 5. zswap do shrink, writeback version_1 page to swapfile
 6. version_2 page is overwrited by version_1, data corrupt.

This patch fixes this issue by invalidating expired data immediately
when meet a dup-store failure.

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1 parent bc127bd
History
Tip revision: fb993fa1a2f669215fa03a09eed7848f2663e336 authored by Weijie Yang on 02 December 2014, 23:59:25 UTC
mm: frontswap: invalidate expired data on a dup-store failure
Tip revision: fb993fa
File Mode Size
Documentation
arch
block
crypto
drivers
firmware
fs
include
init
ipc
kernel
lib
mm
net
samples
scripts
security
sound
tools
usr
virt
.gitignore -rw-r--r-- 1.1 KB
.mailmap -rw-r--r-- 4.7 KB
COPYING -rw-r--r-- 18.3 KB
CREDITS -rw-r--r-- 93.8 KB
Kbuild -rw-r--r-- 2.5 KB
Kconfig -rw-r--r-- 252 bytes
MAINTAINERS -rw-r--r-- 285.4 KB
Makefile -rw-r--r-- 53.2 KB
README -rw-r--r-- 18.3 KB
REPORTING-BUGS -rw-r--r-- 7.3 KB

README

back to top