mm-swap-fix-swap_usage_offlist_bit-collision-with-real-usage-count.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm, swap: fix SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT collision with real usage count
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-swap-fix-swap_usage_offlist_bit-collision-with-real-usage-count.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Nhat Pham <[email protected]>
Subject: mm, swap: fix SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT collision with real usage count
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:14:33 -0700

SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT is embedded in the si->inuse_pages usage counter, and is meant to sit above any value that counter can reach. However, it is defined from BITS_PER_TYPE(atomic_t), so it is bit 30. On a system with 4 KiB pages the flag collides with the usage count once that count reaches 4 TiB.

swap_usage_in_pages() masks bit 30 out, so whenever the real count has that bit set, every caller of it reads 4 TiB low:

* /proc/swaps understates Used by 4 TiB.

* A raw count of exactly 2^30 masks to zero, so try_to_unuse() takes its "if (!swap_usage_in_pages(si)) goto success;" early exit and swapoff tears the device down while pages are still swapped out. Nothing in the rest of swapoff aborts the teardown, so those pages are lost.

Independently of swapoff, the collision also corrupts the counter and the plist. On a device in normal use, a free that leaves bit 30 set in the count makes swap_usage_sub() see the flag where there is only count, and call add_to_avail_list(). It clears the bit with fetch_and(~SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT), leaving the stored count 4 TiB below the real one, and calls plist_add() on a device that is already listed, tripping the WARN_ON(!plist_node_empty(node)) in plist_add() and linking the node a second time.

Change the definition of SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT to be based on atomic_long_t instead. Note that the usage counter field itself is of this same type, so it is still a valid bit.

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 mm/swapfile.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *swap_ent
  * This bit will be set if the device is not on the plist and not
  * usable, will be cleared if the device is on the plist.
  */
-#define SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT (1UL << (BITS_PER_TYPE(atomic_t) - 2))
+#define SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT (1UL << (BITS_PER_TYPE(atomic_long_t) - 2))
 #define SWAP_USAGE_COUNTER_MASK (~SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT)
 static long swap_usage_in_pages(struct swap_info_struct *si)
 {

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