Patch "mm: support anonymous stable page" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mm: support anonymous stable page

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mm-support-anonymous-stable-page.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:58:15 -0800
Subject: mm: support anonymous stable page

From: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>

commit f05714293a591038304ddae7cb0dd747bb3786cc upstream.

During developemnt for zram-swap asynchronous writeback, I found strange corruption of compressed page, resulting in:

  Modules linked in: zram(E)
  CPU: 3 PID: 1520 Comm: zramd-1 Tainted: G            E   4.8.0-mm1-00320-ge0d4894c9c38-dirty #3274
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
  task: ffff88007620b840 task.stack: ffff880078090000
  RIP: set_freeobj.part.43+0x1c/0x1f
  RSP: 0018:ffff880078093ca8  EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: 0000000000000018 RBX: ffff880076798d88 RCX: ffffffff81c408c8
  RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000246
  RBP: ffff880078093cb0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: ffff88005bc43030 R11: 0000000000001df3 R12: ffff880076798d88
  R13: 000000000005bc43 R14: ffff88007819d1b8 R15: 0000000000000001
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007e380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007fc934048f20 CR3: 0000000077b01000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
  Call Trace:
    obj_malloc+0x22b/0x260
    zs_malloc+0x1e4/0x580
    zram_bvec_rw+0x4cd/0x830 [zram]
    page_requests_rw+0x9c/0x130 [zram]
    zram_thread+0xe6/0x173 [zram]
    kthread+0xca/0xe0
    ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

With investigation, it reveals currently stable page doesn't support anonymous page. IOW, reuse_swap_page can reuse the page without waiting writeback completion so it can overwrite page zram is compressing.

Unfortunately, zram has used per-cpu stream feature from v4.7. It aims for increasing cache hit ratio of scratch buffer for compressing. Downside of that approach is that zram should ask memory space for compressed page in per-cpu context which requires stricted gfp flag which could be failed. If so, it retries to allocate memory space out of per-cpu context so it could get memory this time and compress the data again, copies it to the memory space.

In this scenario, zram assumes the data should never be changed but it is not true unless stable page supports. So, If the data is changed under us, zram can make buffer overrun because second compression size could be bigger than one we got in previous trial and blindly, copy bigger size object to smaller buffer which is buffer overrun. The overrun breaks zsmalloc free object chaining so system goes crash like above.

I think below is same problem.
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997574

Unfortunately, reuse_swap_page should be atomic so that we cannot wait on writeback in there so the approach in this patch is simply return false if we found it needs stable page. Although it increases memory footprint temporarily, it happens rarely and it should be reclaimed easily althoug it happened. Also, It would be better than waiting of IO completion, which is critial path for application latency.

---
 include/linux/swap.h |    3 ++-
 mm/swapfile.c        |   20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -150,8 +150,9 @@ enum {
 	SWP_FILE	= (1 << 7),	/* set after swap_activate success */
 	SWP_AREA_DISCARD = (1 << 8),	/* single-time swap area discards */
 	SWP_PAGE_DISCARD = (1 << 9),	/* freed swap page-cluster discards */
+	SWP_STABLE_WRITES = (1 << 10),	/* no overwrite PG_writeback pages */
 					/* add others here before... */
-	SWP_SCANNING	= (1 << 10),	/* refcount in scan_swap_map */
+	SWP_SCANNING	= (1 << 11),	/* refcount in scan_swap_map */
 };
 
 #define SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX 32UL

@@ -943,11 +943,25 @@ bool reuse_swap_page(struct page *page,
 	count = page_trans_huge_mapcount(page, total_mapcount);
 	if (count <= 1 && PageSwapCache(page)) {
 		count += page_swapcount(page);
-		if (count == 1 && !PageWriteback(page)) {
+		if (count != 1)
+			goto out;
+		if (!PageWriteback(page)) {
 			delete_from_swap_cache(page);
 			SetPageDirty(page);
+		} else {
+			swp_entry_t entry;
+			struct swap_info_struct *p;
+
+			entry.val = page_private(page);
+			p = swap_info_get(entry);
+			if (p->flags & SWP_STABLE_WRITES) {
+				spin_unlock(&p->lock);
+				return false;
+			}
+			spin_unlock(&p->lock);
 		}
 	}
+out:
 	return count <= 1;
 }
 

@@ -2449,6 +2463,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use
 		error = -ENOMEM;
 		goto bad_swap;
 	}
+
+	if (bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(inode_to_bdi(inode)))
+		p->flags |= SWP_STABLE_WRITES;
+
 	if (p->bdev && blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
 		int cpu;
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/mm-memcg-fix-the-active-list-aging-for-lowmem-requests-when-memcg-is-enabled.patch queue-4.9/zram-support-bdi_cap_stable_writes.patch queue-4.9/mm-support-anonymous-stable-page.patch queue-4.9/zram-revalidate-disk-under-init_lock.patch queue-4.9/mm-pmd-dirty-emulation-in-page-fault-handler.patch