linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix cleancache race condition with shrinker

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Date:	Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:58:45 -0500
From:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix cleancache race condition with shrinker

This patch fixes a race condition that results in memory
corruption when using cleancache.

The race exists between the zcache shrinker handler,
shrink_zcache_memory() and cleancache_get_page().

In most cases, the shrinker will both evict a zbpg
from its buddy list and flush it from tmem before a
cleancache_get_page() occurs on that page. A subsequent
cleancache_get_page() will fail in the tmem layer.

In the rare case that two occur together and the
cleancache_get_page() path gets through the tmem
layer before the shrinker path can flush tmem,
zbud_decompress() does a check to see if the zbpg is a
"zombie", i.e. not on a buddy list, which means the shrinker
is in the process of reclaiming it. If the zbpg is a zombie,
zbud_decompress() returns -EINVAL.

However, this return code is being ignored by the caller,
zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free(), which results in the
caller of cleancache_get_page() thinking that the page has
been properly retrieved when it has not.

This patch modifies zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free() to
convey the failure up the stack so that the caller of
cleancache_get_page() knows the page retrieval failed.

---
Based on v3.6-rc3.

This needs to be applied to stable trees as well.
zcache-main.c was named zcache.c before v3.1, so
I'm not sure how you want to handle trees earlier
than that.

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
index c214977..52b43b7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
@@ -1251,13 +1251,12 @@ static int zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free(char *data, size_t *bufsize, bool raw,
 					void *pampd, struct tmem_pool *pool,
 					struct tmem_oid *oid, uint32_t index)
 {
-	int ret = 0;
-
 	BUG_ON(!is_ephemeral(pool));
-	zbud_decompress((struct page *)(data), pampd);
+	if (zbud_decompress((struct page *)(data), pampd) < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
 	zbud_free_and_delist((struct zbud_hdr *)pampd);
 	atomic_dec(&zcache_curr_eph_pampd_count);
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }

 /*
-- 
1.7.9.5

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