mm: swapoff: shmem_unuse() stop eviction without igrab()
The igrab() in shmem_unuse() looks good, but we forgot that it gives no protection against concurrent unmounting: a point made by Konstantin Khlebnikov eight years ago, and then fixed in 2.6.39 by 778dd893 ("tmpfs: fix race between umount and swapoff"). The current 5.1-rc swapoff is liable to hit "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of tmpfs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day..." followed by GPF. Once again, give up on using igrab(); but don't go back to making such heavy-handed use of shmem_swaplist_mutex as last time: that would spoil the new design, and I expect could deadlock inside shmem_swapin_page(). Instead, shmem_unuse() just raise a "stop_eviction" count in the shmem- specific inode, and shmem_evict_inode() wait for that to go down to 0. Call it "stop_eviction" rather than "swapoff_busy" because it can be put to use for others later (huge tmpfs patches expect to use it). That simplifies shmem_unuse(), protecting it from both ...
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