[PATCH] cpumask: use nr_cpumask_bits for parsing functions

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Feb 06 2017 - 13:25:02 EST


513e3d2d11c9 ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and
parsing functions") converted both cpumask printing and parsing
functions to use nr_cpu_ids instead of nr_cpumask_bits. While this
was okay for the printing functions as it just picked one of the two
output formats that we were alternating between depending on a kernel
config, doing the same for parsing wasn't okay.

nr_cpumask_bits can be either nr_cpu_ids or NR_CPUS. We can always
use nr_cpu_ids but that is a variable while NR_CPUS is a constant, so
it can be more efficient to use NR_CPUS when we can get away with it.
Converting the printing functions to nr_cpu_ids makes sense because it
affects how the masks get presented to userspace and doesn't break
anything; however, using nr_cpu_ids for parsing functions can
incorrectly leave the higher bits uninitialized while reading in these
masks from userland. As all testing and comparison functions use
nr_cpumask_bits which can be larger than nr_cpu_ids, the parsed
cpumasks can erroneously yield false negative results.

This made the taskstats interface incorrectly return -EINVAL even when
the inputs were correct.

Fix it by restoring the parse functions to use nr_cpumask_bits instead
of nr_cpu_ids.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 513e3d2d11c9 ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and parsing functions")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.0+
Reported-by: Martin Steigerwald <martin.steigerwald@xxxxxxxxx>
Debugged-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/cpumask.h | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cpumask.h b/include/linux/cpumask.h
index c717f5e..b3d2c1a 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpumask.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpumask.h
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static inline void cpumask_copy(struct cpumask *dstp,
static inline int cpumask_parse_user(const char __user *buf, int len,
struct cpumask *dstp)
{
- return bitmap_parse_user(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpu_ids);
+ return bitmap_parse_user(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
}

/**
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ static inline int cpumask_parselist_user(const char __user *buf, int len,
struct cpumask *dstp)
{
return bitmap_parselist_user(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp),
- nr_cpu_ids);
+ nr_cpumask_bits);
}

/**
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ static inline int cpumask_parse(const char *buf, struct cpumask *dstp)
char *nl = strchr(buf, '\n');
unsigned int len = nl ? (unsigned int)(nl - buf) : strlen(buf);

- return bitmap_parse(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpu_ids);
+ return bitmap_parse(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
}

/**
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ static inline int cpumask_parse(const char *buf, struct cpumask *dstp)
*/
static inline int cpulist_parse(const char *buf, struct cpumask *dstp)
{
- return bitmap_parselist(buf, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpu_ids);
+ return bitmap_parselist(buf, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
}

/**