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mm/swap: fix race when skipping swapcache

When skipping swapcache for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO, if two or more threads
swapin the same entry at the same time, they get different pages (A, B).
Before one thread (T0) finishes the swapin and installs page (A) to the
PTE, another thread (T1) could finish swapin of page (B), swap_free the
entry, then swap out the possibly modified page reusing the same entry.
It breaks the pte_same check in (T0) because PTE value is unchanged,
causing ABA problem. Thread (T0) will install a stalled page (A) into the
PTE and cause data corruption.

One possible callstack is like this:

CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
do_swap_page() do_swap_page() with same entry
<direct swapin path> <direct swapin path>
<alloc page A> <alloc page B>
swap_read_folio() <- read to page A swap_read_folio() <- read to page B
<slow on later locks or interrupt> <finished swapin first>
... set_pte_at()
swap_free() <- entry is free
<write to page B, now page A stalled>
<swap out page B to same swap entry>
pte_same() <- Check pass, PTE seems
unchanged, but page A
is stalled!
swap_free() <- page B content lost!
set_pte_at() <- staled page A installed!

And besides, for ZRAM, swap_free() allows the swap device to discard the
entry content, so even if page (B) is not modified, if swap_read_folio()
on CPU0 happens later than swap_free() on CPU1, it may also cause data
loss.

To fix this, reuse swapcache_prepare which will pin the swap entry using
the cache flag, and allow only one thread to swap it in, also prevent any
parallel code from putting the entry in the cache. Release the pin after
PT unlocked.

Racers just loop and wait since it's a rare and very short event. A
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) call is added to avoid repeated page
faults wasting too much CPU, causing livelock or adding too much noise to
perf statistics. A similar livelock issue was described in commit
029c4628b2eb ("mm: swap: get rid of livelock in swapin readahead")

Reproducer:

This race issue can be triggered easily using a well constructed
reproducer and patched brd (with a delay in read path) [1]:

With latest 6.8 mainline, race caused data loss can be observed easily:
$ gcc -g -lpthread test-thread-swap-race.c && ./a.out
Polulating 32MB of memory region...
Keep swapping out...
Starting round 0...
Spawning 65536 workers...
32746 workers spawned, wait for done...
Round 0: Error on 0x5aa00, expected 32746, got 32743, 3 data loss!
Round 0: Error on 0x395200, expected 32746, got 32743, 3 data loss!
Round 0: Error on 0x3fd000, expected 32746, got 32737, 9 data loss!
Round 0 Failed, 15 data loss!

This reproducer spawns multiple threads sharing the same memory region
using a small swap device. Every two threads updates mapped pages one by
one in opposite direction trying to create a race, with one dedicated
thread keep swapping out the data out using madvise.

The reproducer created a reproduce rate of about once every 5 minutes, so
the race should be totally possible in production.

After this patch, I ran the reproducer for over a few hundred rounds and
no data loss observed.

Performance overhead is minimal, microbenchmark swapin 10G from 32G
zram:

Before: 10934698 us
After: 11157121 us
Cached: 13155355 us (Dropping SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO flag)

[kasong@tencent.com: v4]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219082040.7495-1-ryncsn@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240206182559.32264-1-ryncsn@gmail.com
Fixes: 0bcac06f27d7 ("mm, swap: skip swapcache for swapin of synchronous device")
Reported-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87bk92gqpx.fsf_-_@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com/
Link: https://github.com/ryncsn/emm-test-project/tree/master/swap-stress-race [1]
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Kairui Song and committed by
Andrew Morton
13ddaf26 16e96ba5

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include/linux/swap.h
··· 549 549 return 0; 550 550 } 551 551 552 + static inline int swapcache_prepare(swp_entry_t swp) 553 + { 554 + return 0; 555 + } 556 + 552 557 static inline void swap_free(swp_entry_t swp) 553 558 { 554 559 }
+20
mm/memory.c
··· 3799 3799 struct page *page; 3800 3800 struct swap_info_struct *si = NULL; 3801 3801 rmap_t rmap_flags = RMAP_NONE; 3802 + bool need_clear_cache = false; 3802 3803 bool exclusive = false; 3803 3804 swp_entry_t entry; 3804 3805 pte_t pte; ··· 3868 3867 if (!folio) { 3869 3868 if (data_race(si->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO) && 3870 3869 __swap_count(entry) == 1) { 3870 + /* 3871 + * Prevent parallel swapin from proceeding with 3872 + * the cache flag. Otherwise, another thread may 3873 + * finish swapin first, free the entry, and swapout 3874 + * reusing the same entry. It's undetectable as 3875 + * pte_same() returns true due to entry reuse. 3876 + */ 3877 + if (swapcache_prepare(entry)) { 3878 + /* Relax a bit to prevent rapid repeated page faults */ 3879 + schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); 3880 + goto out; 3881 + } 3882 + need_clear_cache = true; 3883 + 3871 3884 /* skip swapcache */ 3872 3885 folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0, 3873 3886 vma, vmf->address, false); ··· 4132 4117 if (vmf->pte) 4133 4118 pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl); 4134 4119 out: 4120 + /* Clear the swap cache pin for direct swapin after PTL unlock */ 4121 + if (need_clear_cache) 4122 + swapcache_clear(si, entry); 4135 4123 if (si) 4136 4124 put_swap_device(si); 4137 4125 return ret; ··· 4149 4131 folio_unlock(swapcache); 4150 4132 folio_put(swapcache); 4151 4133 } 4134 + if (need_clear_cache) 4135 + swapcache_clear(si, entry); 4152 4136 if (si) 4153 4137 put_swap_device(si); 4154 4138 return ret;
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mm/swap.h
··· 41 41 void delete_from_swap_cache(struct folio *folio); 42 42 void clear_shadow_from_swap_cache(int type, unsigned long begin, 43 43 unsigned long end); 44 + void swapcache_clear(struct swap_info_struct *si, swp_entry_t entry); 44 45 struct folio *swap_cache_get_folio(swp_entry_t entry, 45 46 struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr); 46 47 struct folio *filemap_get_incore_folio(struct address_space *mapping, ··· 96 95 static inline int swap_writepage(struct page *p, struct writeback_control *wbc) 97 96 { 98 97 return 0; 98 + } 99 + 100 + static inline void swapcache_clear(struct swap_info_struct *si, swp_entry_t entry) 101 + { 99 102 } 100 103 101 104 static inline struct folio *swap_cache_get_folio(swp_entry_t entry,
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mm/swapfile.c
··· 3365 3365 return __swap_duplicate(entry, SWAP_HAS_CACHE); 3366 3366 } 3367 3367 3368 + void swapcache_clear(struct swap_info_struct *si, swp_entry_t entry) 3369 + { 3370 + struct swap_cluster_info *ci; 3371 + unsigned long offset = swp_offset(entry); 3372 + unsigned char usage; 3373 + 3374 + ci = lock_cluster_or_swap_info(si, offset); 3375 + usage = __swap_entry_free_locked(si, offset, SWAP_HAS_CACHE); 3376 + unlock_cluster_or_swap_info(si, ci); 3377 + if (!usage) 3378 + free_swap_slot(entry); 3379 + } 3380 + 3368 3381 struct swap_info_struct *swp_swap_info(swp_entry_t entry) 3369 3382 { 3370 3383 return swap_type_to_swap_info(swp_type(entry));