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authorDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>2019-08-20 07:55:16 -0700
committerDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>2019-08-20 07:55:16 -0700
commitdc617f29dbe5ef0c8ced65ce62c464af1daaab3d (patch)
tree3596eb0d334f04f87088c735748bba8e66a71cad /mm/swapfile.c
parent1638045c36772b47a0765f7dca07cb90267e4942 (diff)
downloadlinux-dc617f29dbe5ef0c8ced65ce62c464af1daaab3d.tar.bz2
vfs: don't allow writes to swap files
Don't let userspace write to an active swap file because the kernel effectively has a long term lease on the storage and things could get seriously corrupted if we let this happen. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/swapfile.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/swapfile.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index a53b7c49b40e..dab43523afdd 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -3275,6 +3275,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
if (error)
goto bad_swap;
+ /*
+ * Flush any pending IO and dirty mappings before we start using this
+ * swap device.
+ */
+ inode->i_flags |= S_SWAPFILE;
+ error = inode_drain_writes(inode);
+ if (error) {
+ inode->i_flags &= ~S_SWAPFILE;
+ goto bad_swap;
+ }
+
mutex_lock(&swapon_mutex);
prio = -1;
if (swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_PREFER)
@@ -3295,7 +3306,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
atomic_inc(&proc_poll_event);
wake_up_interruptible(&proc_poll_wait);
- inode->i_flags |= S_SWAPFILE;
error = 0;
goto out;
bad_swap: