On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:48:38 -0400 Rafael Aquini <aqu...@redhat.com> wrote:
> The swap area descriptor only gets struct swap_cluster_info *cluster_info
> allocated if the swapfile is backed by non-rotational storage.
> When the swap area is laid on top of ordinary disk spindles, lock_cluster()
> will naturally return NULL.
>
> CONFIG_THP_SWAP exposes cluster_info infrastructure to a broader number of
> use cases, and split_swap_cluster(), which is the counterpart of
> split_huge_page()
> for the THPs in the swapcache, misses checking the return of lock_cluster
> before
> operating on the cluster_info pointer.
>
> This patch addresses that issue by adding a proper check for the pointer
> not being NULL in the wrappers cluster_{is,clear}_huge(), in order to avoid
> crashes similar to the one below:
>
> ...
>
> Fixes: 59807685a7e77 ("mm, THP, swap: support splitting THP for THP swap out")
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aqu...@redhat.com>
Did you consider cc:stable?
