Commit 5b5243b6 authored by Vlastimil Babka's avatar Vlastimil Babka Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, frontswap: make sure allocated frontswap map is assigned

commit 5e322bee upstream.

Christian Borntraeger reports:

With commit 8ea1d2a1 ("mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to
static key") kmemleak complains about a memory leak in swapon

    unreferenced object 0x3e09ba56000 (size 32112640):
      comm "swapon", pid 7852, jiffies 4294968787 (age 1490.770s)
      hex dump (first 32 bytes):
        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
      backtrace:
         __vmalloc_node_range+0x194/0x2d8
         vzalloc+0x58/0x68
         SyS_swapon+0xd60/0x12f8
         system_call+0xd6/0x270

Turns out kmemleak is right.  We now allocate the frontswap map
depending on the kernel config (and no longer on the enablement)

  swapfile.c:
  [...]
      if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP))
                frontswap_map = vzalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(maxpages) * sizeof(long));

but later on this is passed along
  --> enable_swap_info(p, prio, swap_map, cluster_info, frontswap_map);

and ignored if frontswap is disabled
  --> frontswap_init(p->type, frontswap_map);

  static inline void frontswap_init(unsigned type, unsigned long *map)
  {
        if (frontswap_enabled())
                __frontswap_init(type, map);
  }

Thing is, that frontswap map is never freed.

The leakage is relatively not that bad, because swapon is an infrequent
and privileged operation.  However, if the first frontswap backend is
registered after a swap type has been already enabled, it will WARN_ON
in frontswap_register_ops() and frontswap will not be available for the
swap type.

Fix this by making sure the map is assigned by frontswap_init() as long
as CONFIG_FRONTSWAP is enabled.

Fixes: 8ea1d2a1 ("mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to static key")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161026134220.2566-1-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 2e594273
...@@ -106,8 +106,9 @@ static inline void frontswap_invalidate_area(unsigned type) ...@@ -106,8 +106,9 @@ static inline void frontswap_invalidate_area(unsigned type)
static inline void frontswap_init(unsigned type, unsigned long *map) static inline void frontswap_init(unsigned type, unsigned long *map)
{ {
if (frontswap_enabled()) #ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP
__frontswap_init(type, map); __frontswap_init(type, map);
#endif
} }
#endif /* _LINUX_FRONTSWAP_H */ #endif /* _LINUX_FRONTSWAP_H */
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