linux-kernel - [PATCH 010/145] zram: use zram->lock to protect zram_free

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Message-Id: <1374101277-7915-11-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:45:42 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 010/145] zram: use zram->lock to protect zram_free_page() in swap free notify path

3.8.13.5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>

commit 57ab048532c0d975538cebd4456491b5c34248f4 upstream.

zram_slot_free_notify() is free-running without any protection from
concurrent operations. So there are race conditions between
zram_bvec_read()/zram_bvec_write() and zram_slot_free_notify(),
and possible consequences include:
1) Trigger BUG_ON(!handle) on zram_bvec_write() side.
2) Access to freed pages on zram_bvec_read() side.
3) Break some fields (bad_compress, good_compress, pages_stored)
   in zram->stats if the swap layer makes concurrently call to
   zram_slot_free_notify().

So enhance zram_slot_free_notify() to acquire writer lock on zram->lock
before calling zram_free_page().

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.8: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 ++
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index c9c1e0e..0113897 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -615,7 +615,9 @@ static void zram_slot_free_notify(struct block_device *bdev,
 	struct zram *zram;
 
 	zram = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
+	down_write(&zram->lock);
 	zram_free_page(zram, index);
+	up_write(&zram->lock);
 	zram_stat64_inc(zram, &zram->stats.notify_free);
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
index df2eec4..4265ab4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@ struct zram {
 	void *compress_buffer;
 	struct table *table;
 	spinlock_t stat64_lock;	/* protect 64-bit stats */
-	struct rw_semaphore lock; /* protect compression buffers and table
-				   * against concurrent read and writes */
+	struct rw_semaphore lock; /* protect compression buffers, table,
+				   * 32bit stat counters against concurrent
+				   * notifications, reads and writes */
 	struct request_queue *queue;
 	struct gendisk *disk;
 	int init_done;
-- 
1.8.1.2

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