ferent swap area while we dropped page lock (perhaps at the top, perhaps in unuse_mm): we could wrongly remove from swap cache before the page has been written to swap, so a subsequent do_swap_page() would read in stale data from swap. I think this case could not happen before: remove_exclusive_swap_page() refused while page count was raised. But now with reuse_swap_page() and try_to_free_swap() removing from swap cache without minding page count, I think it could happen - the previous patch argued that it was safe because try_to_unuse() already ignored page count, but overlooked that it might be breaking the assumptions in try_to_unuse() itself. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Robin Holt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds X?|¶˜yx