[PATCH] cpumask: fix compat getaffinity

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue May 18 2010 - 20:37:57 EST


Hi Linus,

Is there any chance to merge this patch at this merge window?
Now, Ken and PS3 community suffer from the regression of
commit a45185d2d. And I and Rusty agreed the following fix is sufficient.


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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] cpumask: fix compat getaffinity

Commit a45185d2d "cpumask: convert kernel/compat.c" broke
libnuma, which abuses sched_getaffinity to find out NR_CPUS
in order to parse /sys/devices/system/node/node*/cpumap.

On NUMA systems with less than 32 possibly CPUs, the
current compat_sys_sched_getaffinity now returns '4'
instead of the actual NR_CPUS/8, which makes libnuma
bail out when parsing the cpumap.

The libnuma call sched_getaffinity(0, bitmap, 4096)
at first. It mean the libnuma expect the return value of
sched_getaffinity() is either len argument or NR_CPUS.
But it doesn't expect to return nr_cpu_ids.

Strictly speaking, userland requirement are

1) Glibc assume the return value mean the lengh of initialized
of mask argument. E.g. if sched_getaffinity(1024) return 128,
glibc make zero fill rest 896 byte.
2) Libnuma assume the return value can be used to guess NR_CPUS
in kernel. It assume len-arg<NR_CPUS makes -EINVAL. But
it try len=4096 at first and 4096 is always bigger than
NR_CPUS. Then, if we remove strange min_length normalization,
we never hit -EINVAL case.

sched_getaffinity() already solved this issue. This patch
adapt compat_sys_sched_getaffinity() as it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ken Werner <ken.werner@xxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/compat.c | 25 +++++++++++--------------
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
index 7f40e92..5adab05 100644
--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -495,29 +495,26 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_sched_getaffinity(compat_pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
{
int ret;
cpumask_var_t mask;
- unsigned long *k;
- unsigned int min_length = cpumask_size();
-
- if (nr_cpu_ids <= BITS_PER_COMPAT_LONG)
- min_length = sizeof(compat_ulong_t);

- if (len < min_length)
+ if ((len * BITS_PER_BYTE) < nr_cpu_ids)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (len & (sizeof(compat_ulong_t)-1))
return -EINVAL;

if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&mask, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;

ret = sched_getaffinity(pid, mask);
- if (ret < 0)
- goto out;
+ if (ret == 0) {
+ size_t retlen = min_t(size_t, len, cpumask_size());

- k = cpumask_bits(mask);
- ret = compat_put_bitmap(user_mask_ptr, k, min_length * 8);
- if (ret == 0)
- ret = min_length;
-
-out:
+ if (compat_put_bitmap(user_mask_ptr, cpumask_bits(mask), retlen * 8))
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ else
+ ret = retlen;
+ }
free_cpumask_var(mask);
+
return ret;
}

--
1.6.5.2









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