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mm: swap: correctly use maxpages in swapon syscall to avoid potential deadloop
We use maxpages from read_swap_header() to initialize swap_info_struct,
however the maxpages might be reduced in setup_swap_extents() and the
si->max is assigned with the reduced maxpages from the
setup_swap_extents().
Obviously, this could lead to memory waste as we allocated memory based on
larger maxpages, besides, this could lead to a potential deadloop as
following:
1) When calling setup_clusters() with larger maxpages, unavailable
pages within range [si->max, larger maxpages) are not accounted with
inc_cluster_info_page(). As a result, these pages are assumed
available but can not be allocated. The cluster contains these pages
can be moved to frag_clusters list after it's all available pages were
allocated.
2) When the cluster mentioned in 1) is the only cluster in
frag_clusters list, cluster_alloc_swap_entry() assume order 0
allocation will never failed and will enter a deadloop by keep trying
to allocate page from the only cluster in frag_clusters which contains
no actually available page.
Call setup_swap_extents() to get the final maxpages before
swap_info_struct initialization to fix the issue.
After this change, span will include badblocks and will become large
value which I think is correct value:
In summary, there are two kinds of swapfile_activate operations.
1. Filesystem style: Treat all blocks logical continuity and find
usable physical extents in logical range. In this way, si->pages will
be actual usable physical blocks and span will be "1 + highest_block -
lowest_block".
2. Block device style: Treat all blocks physically continue and only
one single extent is added. In this way, si->pages will be si->max and
span will be "si->pages - 1". Actually, si->pages and si->max is only
used in block device style and span value is set with si->pages. As a
result, span value in block device style will become a larger value as
you mentioned.
I think larger value is correct based on:
1. Span value in filesystem style is "1 + highest_block -
lowest_block" which is the range cover all possible phisical blocks
including the badblocks.
2. For block device style, si->pages is the actual usable block number
and is already in pr_info. The original span value before this patch
is also refer to usable block number which is redundant in pr_info.
[shikemeng@huaweicloud.com: ensure si->pages == si->max - 1 after setup_swap_extents()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250522122554.12209-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250718065139.61989-1-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250522122554.12209-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 661383c ("mm: swap: relaim the cached parts that got scanned")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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