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Minchan Kim 4f7a7beaee zram: remove BD_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO with writeback feature
If zram supports writeback feature, it's no longer a
BD_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO device beause zram does asynchronous IO operations
for incompressible pages.

Do not pretend to be synchronous IO device.  It makes the system very
sluggish due to waiting for IO completion from upper layers.

Furthermore, it causes a user-after-free problem because swap thinks the
opearion is done when the IO functions returns so it can free the page
(e.g., lock_page_or_retry and goto out_release in do_swap_page) but in
fact, IO is asynchronous so the driver could access a just freed page
afterward.

This patch fixes the problem.

  BUG: Bad page state in process qemu-system-x86  pfn:3dfab21
  page:ffffdfb137eac840 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1
  flags: 0x17fffc000000008(uptodate)
  raw: 017fffc000000008 dead000000000100 dead000000000200 0000000000000000
  raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
  page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP flag set
  bad because of flags: 0x8(uptodate)
  CPU: 4 PID: 1039 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Tainted: G    B 4.18.0-rc5+ #1
  Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X10SRL-F, BIOS 2.0b 05/02/2017
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x5c/0x7b
    bad_page+0xba/0x120
    get_page_from_freelist+0x1016/0x1250
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xfa/0x250
    alloc_pages_vma+0x7c/0x1c0
    do_swap_page+0x347/0x920
    __handle_mm_fault+0x7b4/0x1110
    handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x1f0
    __get_user_pages+0x12f/0x690
    get_user_pages_unlocked+0x148/0x1f0
    __gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0xff/0x3c0 [kvm]
    try_async_pf+0x87/0x230 [kvm]
    tdp_page_fault+0x132/0x290 [kvm]
    kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x74/0x570 [kvm]
    kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x9b3/0x1990 [kvm]
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x388/0x5d0 [kvm]
    do_vfs_ioctl+0xa2/0x630
    ksys_ioctl+0x70/0x80
    __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x55/0x100
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0516ae2d-b0fd-92c5-aa92-112ba7bd32fc@contabo.de/
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802051112.86174-1-minchan@kernel.org
[minchan@kernel.org: fix changelog, add comment]
 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0516ae2d-b0fd-92c5-aa92-112ba7bd32fc@contabo.de/
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802051112.86174-1-minchan@kernel.org
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180805233722.217347-1-minchan@kernel.org
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Tino Lehnig <tino.lehnig@contabo.de>
Tested-by: Tino Lehnig <tino.lehnig@contabo.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.15+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-10 20:19:59 -07:00
Documentation Documentation: dpaa2: Use correct heading adornment 2018-08-01 09:45:57 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
arch lib/ubsan: remove null-pointer checks 2018-08-10 20:19:58 -07:00
block Partially revert "block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions" 2018-08-04 18:19:55 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist: fix const confusion 2018-06-26 09:43:03 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-07-19 07:32:44 -07:00
drivers zram: remove BD_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO with writeback feature 2018-08-10 20:19:59 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
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lib lib/ubsan: remove null-pointer checks 2018-08-10 20:19:58 -07:00
mm mm/memory.c: check return value of ioremap_prot 2018-08-10 20:19:58 -07:00
net dsa: slave: eee: Allow ports to use phylink 2018-08-08 19:19:03 -07:00
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usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.