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[06/12] mm/swapfile: do not sleep with a spin lock held

Message ID 20201206061455.fGLHX_jlo%akpm@linux-foundation.org
State New
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Commit Message

Andrew Morton Dec. 6, 2020, 6:14 a.m. UTC 
From: Qian Cai <qcai@redhat.com>
Subject: mm/swapfile: do not sleep with a spin lock held

We can't call kvfree() with a spin lock held, so defer it.  Fixes a
might_sleep() runtime warning.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201202151549.10350-1-qcai@redhat.com
Fixes: 873d7bcfd066 ("mm/swapfile.c: use kvzalloc for swap_info_struct allocation")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <qcai@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/swapfile.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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--- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-swapfile-do-not-sleep-with-a-spin-lock-held
+++ a/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2867,6 +2867,7 @@  late_initcall(max_swapfiles_check);
 static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
 {
 	struct swap_info_struct *p;
+	struct swap_info_struct *defer = NULL;
 	unsigned int type;
 	int i;
 
@@ -2895,7 +2896,7 @@  static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_sw
 		smp_wmb();
 		WRITE_ONCE(nr_swapfiles, nr_swapfiles + 1);
 	} else {
-		kvfree(p);
+		defer = p;
 		p = swap_info[type];
 		/*
 		 * Do not memset this entry: a racing procfs swap_next()
@@ -2908,6 +2909,7 @@  static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_sw
 		plist_node_init(&p->avail_lists[i], 0);
 	p->flags = SWP_USED;
 	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
+	kvfree(defer);
 	spin_lock_init(&p->lock);
 	spin_lock_init(&p->cont_lock);