Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm, swap: ratelimit bad swap entry reports

Nhat Pham <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kvack.linux-mm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <CAKEwX=PnuV1RoAV2ghNH8JgQfDGskfRpGdRA_K9zP1C54YLPiA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 3:03 AM Breno Leitao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> A corrupt page table hands the same bogus entry to get_swap_device() on
> every access to the mapping, and every rejection is logged. One machine
> logged 6185620 copies of the same line in a few hours.
>
> swap_dup_entry_direct() prints the same message from the fork path, once
> per call: the WARN_ON_ONCE() guarding it warns once, the pr_err() inside
> does not.
>
> Rate limit all three prints.
>
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <[email protected]>
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