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-rw-r--r--mm/swapfile.c15
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 115f0b0c0c10..e898c879a434 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -100,11 +100,10 @@ atomic_t nr_rotate_swap = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
static struct swap_info_struct *swap_type_to_swap_info(int type)
{
- if (type >= READ_ONCE(nr_swapfiles))
+ if (type >= MAX_SWAPFILES)
return NULL;
- smp_rmb(); /* Pairs with smp_wmb in alloc_swap_info. */
- return READ_ONCE(swap_info[type]);
+ return READ_ONCE(swap_info[type]); /* rcu_dereference() */
}
static inline unsigned char swap_count(unsigned char ent)
@@ -2863,14 +2862,12 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
}
if (type >= nr_swapfiles) {
p->type = type;
- WRITE_ONCE(swap_info[type], p);
/*
- * Write swap_info[type] before nr_swapfiles, in case a
- * racing procfs swap_start() or swap_next() is reading them.
- * (We never shrink nr_swapfiles, we never free this entry.)
+ * Publish the swap_info_struct after initializing it.
+ * Note that kvzalloc() above zeroes all its fields.
*/
- smp_wmb();
- WRITE_ONCE(nr_swapfiles, nr_swapfiles + 1);
+ smp_store_release(&swap_info[type], p); /* rcu_assign_pointer() */
+ nr_swapfiles++;
} else {
defer = p;
p = swap_info[type];