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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2011-05-28 13:14:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-28 16:09:26 -0700
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tmpfs: fix race between truncate and writepage
While running fsx on tmpfs with a memhog then swapoff, swapoff was hanging (interruptibly), repeatedly failing to locate the owner of a 0xff entry in the swap_map. Although shmem_writepage() does abandon when it sees incoming page index is beyond eof, there was still a window in which shmem_truncate_range() could come in between writepage's dropping lock and updating swap_map, find the half-completed swap_map entry, and in trying to free it, leave it in a state that swap_shmem_alloc() could not correct. Arguably a bug in __swap_duplicate()'s and swap_entry_free()'s handling of the different cases, but easiest to fix by moving swap_shmem_alloc() under cover of the lock. More interesting than the bug: it's been there since 2.6.33, why could I not see it with earlier kernels? The mmotm of two weeks ago seems to have some magic for generating races, this is just one of three I found. With yesterday's git I first saw this in mainline, bisected in search of that magic, but the easy reproducibility evaporated. Oh well, fix the bug. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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