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authorNhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>2023-01-10 15:17:01 -0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-01-31 16:44:07 -0800
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tree8c556c5853026ec43c6368a421f2cd59fa192997 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
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zsmalloc: fix a race with deferred_handles storing
Currently, there is a race between zs_free() and zs_reclaim_page(): zs_reclaim_page() finds a handle to an allocated object, but before the eviction happens, an independent zs_free() call to the same handle could come in and overwrite the object value stored at the handle with the last deferred handle. When zs_reclaim_page() finally gets to call the eviction handler, it will see an invalid object value (i.e the previous deferred handle instead of the original object value). This race happens quite infrequently. We only managed to produce it with out-of-tree developmental code that triggers zsmalloc writeback with a much higher frequency than usual. This patch fixes this race by storing the deferred handle in the object header instead. We differentiate the deferred handle from the other two cases (handle for allocated object, and linkage for free object) with a new tag. If zspage reclamation succeeds, we will free these deferred handles by walking through the zspage objects. On the other hand, if zspage reclamation fails, we reconstruct the zspage freelist (with the deferred handle tag and allocated tag) before trying again with the reclamation. [arnd@arndb.de: avoid unused-function warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230117170507.2651972-1-arnd@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230110231701.326724-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Fixes: 9997bc017549 ("zsmalloc: implement writeback mechanism for zsmalloc") Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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