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Commit c10d38cc authored by Daniel Jordan's avatar Daniel Jordan Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, swap: bounds check swap_info array accesses to avoid NULL derefs

Dan Carpenter reports a potential NULL dereference in
get_swap_page_of_type:

  Smatch complains that the NULL checks on "si" aren't consistent.  This
  seems like a real bug because we have not ensured that the type is
  valid and so "si" can be NULL.

Add the missing check for NULL, taking care to use a read barrier to
ensure CPU1 observes CPU0's updates in the correct order:

     CPU0                           CPU1
     alloc_swap_info()              if (type >= nr_swapfiles)
       swap_info[type] = p              /* handle invalid entry */
       smp_wmb()                    smp_rmb()
       ++nr_swapfiles               p = swap_info[type]

Without smp_rmb, CPU1 might observe CPU0's write to nr_swapfiles before
CPU0's write to swap_info[type] and read NULL from swap_info[type].

Ying Huang noticed other places in swapfile.c don't order these reads
properly.  Introduce swap_type_to_swap_info to encourage correct usage.

Use READ_ONCE and WRITE_ONCE to follow the Linux Kernel Memory Model
(see tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt).

This ordering need not be enforced in places where swap_lock is held
(e.g.  si_swapinfo) because swap_lock serializes updates to nr_swapfiles
and the swap_info array.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190131024410.29859-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
Fixes: ec8acf20

 ("swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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