Thread (35 messages) 35 messages, 8 authors, 2021-07-23

Re: linux-5.13.2: warning from kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:359

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-07-19 11:24:02
Also in: lkml, rcu, stable

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 07:12:58PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
When in the commit 2799e77529c2a, we're using the percpu_ref to serialize against
concurrent swapoff, i.e. there's percpu_ref inside get_swap_device() instead of
rcu_read_lock(). Please see commit 63d8620ecf93 ("mm/swapfile: use percpu_ref to
serialize against concurrent swapoff") for detail.
Oh, so this is a backport problem.  2799e77529c2 was backported without
its prerequisite 63d8620ecf93.  Greg, probably best to just drop
2799e77529c2 from all stable trees; the race described is not very
important (swapoff vs reading a page back from that swap device).
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