If swapping in a large entry at the new EOF fails, shmem_undo_range() leaves the entry in place. Its final scan skips the entry, then restarts from the same start index and finds it again. Truncation can loop forever while holding i_rwsem. Advance start past the skipped entry so that a restarted scan can finish, as we already do for folios that cannot be split. Note that this does not fix the missing zeroing when boundary swapin fails, it merely prevents the endless loop. Fixes: 8a1968bd997f ("mm/shmem, swap: fix race of truncate and swap entry split") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) --- mm/shmem.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index d1716a8da9075..6b24b9d6db26e 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1444,14 +1444,16 @@ static void shmem_undo_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, uoff_t lend, order = shmem_confirm_swap(mapping, indices[i], radix_to_swp_entry(folio)); /* - * If found a large swap entry cross the end or start - * border, skip it as the truncate_inode_partial_folio - * above should have at least zerod its content once. + * Skip boundary entries when restarting + * the scan to avoid endless loops after + * swapin failure. */ if (order > 0) { base = round_down(base, 1 << order); - if (base < start || base + (1 << order) > end) + if (base < start || base + (1 << order) > end) { + start = max(start, base + (1 << order)); continue; + } } /* Swap was replaced by page or extended, retry */ index = base; -- 2.43.0