Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 7 authors, 2022-05-23

[RFC 4/6] mm: swap: Add randomization check for swapon/off calls

From: Vivek Kumar <hidden>
Date: 2022-05-18 07:49:45
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-doc, linux-mm, linux-pm, lkml
Subsystem: memory management, memory management - swap, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, Chris Li, Kairui Song, Linus Torvalds

Add addtional check on swapon/swapoff sycalls to disable
randomization of swap offsets if GENHD_FL_NO_RANDOMIZE
flag is passed.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Kumar <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna Kumar <redacted>
---
 mm/swapfile.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 1c3d5b9..a3eeab6 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2474,7 +2474,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 	if (p->flags & SWP_CONTINUED)
 		free_swap_count_continuations(p);
 
-	if (!p->bdev || !bdev_nonrot(p->bdev))
+	if (!p->bdev || (p->bdev->bd_disk->flags & GENHD_FL_NO_RANDOMIZE)
+			|| !bdev_nonrot(p->bdev))
 		atomic_dec(&nr_rotate_swap);
 
 	mutex_lock(&swapon_mutex);
@@ -3065,7 +3066,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
 	if (p->bdev && p->bdev->bd_disk->fops->rw_page)
 		p->flags |= SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO;
 
-	if (p->bdev && bdev_nonrot(p->bdev)) {
+	if (p->bdev && !(p->bdev->bd_disk->flags & GENHD_FL_NO_RANDOMIZE) &&
+				bdev_nonrot(p->bdev)) {
 		int cpu;
 		unsigned long ci, nr_cluster;
 
-- 
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