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Christian reports a NULL deref in zswap that he bisected down to the zswap shrinker. The issue also cropped up in the bug trackers of libguestfs [1] and the Red Hat bugzilla [2]. The problem is that when memcg is disabled with the boot time flag, the zswap shrinker might get called with sc->memcg == NULL. This is okay in many places, like the lruvec operations. But it crashes in memcg_page_state() - which is only used due to the non-node accounting of cgroup's the zswap memory to begin with. Nhat spotted that the memcg can be NULL in the memcg-disabled case, and I was then able to reproduce the crash locally as well. [1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/139 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275252 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240418124043.GC1055428@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240417143324.GA1055428@cmpxchg.org Fixes: b5ba474f3f51 ("zswap: shrink zswap pool based on memory pressure") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu> Debugged-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Tested-by: Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu> Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v6.8] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.