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-rw-r--r--mm/page_io.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c
index 6c1c1828bb88..ff8c99ee3af7 100644
--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -382,7 +382,12 @@ void __swap_writepage(struct folio *folio, struct writeback_control *wbc)
*/
if (data_race(sis->flags & SWP_FS_OPS))
swap_writepage_fs(folio, wbc);
- else if (sis->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO)
+ /*
+ * ->flags can be updated non-atomicially (scan_swap_map_slots),
+ * but that will never affect SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO, so the data_race
+ * is safe.
+ */
+ else if (data_race(sis->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO))
swap_writepage_bdev_sync(folio, wbc, sis);
else
swap_writepage_bdev_async(folio, wbc, sis);