Re: [PATCH 2/5] swap: fix do_swap_page() race with swapoff

[Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>]

On 2021/4/12 9:44, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> writes:
> 
>> On 2021/4/10 1:17, Tim Chen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/9/21 1:42 AM, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>>>> On 2021/4/9 5:34, Tim Chen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4/8/21 6:08 AM, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>>>>>> When I was investigating the swap code, I found the below possible race
>>>>>> window:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> CPU 1					CPU 2
>>>>>> -----					-----
>>>>>> do_swap_page
>>>>>>   synchronous swap_readpage
>>>>>>     alloc_page_vma
>>>>>> 					swapoff
>>>>>> 					  release swap_file, bdev, or ...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks for quick review and reply!
>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps I'm missing something.  The release of swap_file, bdev etc
>>>>> happens after we have cleared the SWP_VALID bit in si->flags in destroy_swap_extents
>>>>> if I read the swapoff code correctly.
>>>> Agree. Let's look this more close:
>>>> CPU1								CPU2
>>>> -----								-----
>>>> swap_readpage
>>>>   if (data_race(sis->flags & SWP_FS_OPS)) {
>>>> 								swapoff
>>>> 								  p->swap_file = NULL;
>>>>     struct file *swap_file = sis->swap_file;
>>>>     struct address_space *mapping = swap_file->f_mapping;[oops!]
>>>> 								  ...
>>>> 								  p->flags = 0;
>>>>     ...
>>>>
>>>> Does this make sense for you?
>>>
>>> p->swapfile = NULL happens after the 
>>> p->flags &= ~SWP_VALID, synchronize_rcu(), destroy_swap_extents() sequence in swapoff().
>>>
>>> So I don't think the sequence you illustrated on CPU2 is in the right order.
>>> That said, without get_swap_device/put_swap_device in swap_readpage, you could
>>> potentially blow pass synchronize_rcu() on CPU2 and causes a problem.  so I think
>>> the problematic race looks something like the following:
>>>
>>>
>>> CPU1								CPU2
>>> -----								-----
>>> swap_readpage
>>>   if (data_race(sis->flags & SWP_FS_OPS)) {
>>> 								swapoff
>>> 								  p->flags = &= ~SWP_VALID;
>>> 								  ..
>>> 								  synchronize_rcu();
>>> 								  ..
>>> 								  p->swap_file = NULL;
>>>     struct file *swap_file = sis->swap_file;
>>>     struct address_space *mapping = swap_file->f_mapping;[oops!]
>>> 								  ...
>>>     ...
>>>
>>
>> Agree. This is also what I meant to illustrate. And you provide a better one. Many thanks!
> 
> For the pages that are swapped in through swap cache.  That isn't an
> issue.  Because the page is locked, the swap entry will be marked with
> SWAP_HAS_CACHE, so swapoff() cannot proceed until the page has been
> unlocked.
> 
> So the race is for the fast path as follows,
> 
> 		if (data_race(si->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO) &&
> 		    __swap_count(entry) == 1)
> 
> I found it in your original patch description.  But please make it more
> explicit to reduce the potential confusing.

Sure. Should I rephrase the commit log to clarify this or add a comment in the code?

Thanks.

> 
> Best Regards,
> Huang, Ying
> .
>