When passing a equal or more then 32 bytes long string to psi_write(),
psi_write() copies 31 bytes to its buf and overwrites buf[30]
with '\0'. Which makes the input string 1 byte shorter than
it should be.
Fix it by copying sizeof(buf) bytes when nbytes >= sizeof(buf).
This does not cause problems in normal use case like:
"some 500000 10000000" or "full 500000 10000000" because they
are less than 32 bytes in length.
/* assuming nbytes == 35 */
char buf[32];
buf_size = min(nbytes, (sizeof(buf) - 1)); /* buf_size = 31 */
if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
return -EFAULT;
buf[buf_size - 1] = '\0'; /* buf[30] = '\0' */
Before:
%cd /proc/pressure/
%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1234" > memory
[ 22.473497] nbytes=35,buf_size=31
[ 22.473775] 123456789|123456789|123456789| (print 30 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument
%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1" > memory
[ 64.916162] nbytes=32,buf_size=31
[ 64.916331] 123456789|123456789|123456789| (print 30 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument
After:
%cd /proc/pressure/
%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1234" > memory
[ 254.837863] nbytes=35,buf_size=32
[ 254.838541] 123456789|123456789|123456789|1 (print 31 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument
%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1" > memory
[ 9965.714935] nbytes=32,buf_size=32
[ 9965.715096] 123456789|123456789|123456789|1 (print 31 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <[email protected]>
---
kernel/sched/psi.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
index 6e52b67b420e..517e3719027e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
@@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ static ssize_t psi_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
if (static_branch_likely(&psi_disabled))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- buf_size = min(nbytes, (sizeof(buf) - 1));
+ buf_size = min(nbytes, sizeof(buf));
if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
return -EFAULT;
--
2.18.0
The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:
Commit-ID: 4adcdcea717cb2d8436bef00dd689aa5bc76f11b
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/4adcdcea717cb2d8436bef00dd689aa5bc76f11b
Author: Miles Chen <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:34:52 +08:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitterDate: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:49:28 +02:00
sched/psi: Correct overly pessimistic size calculation
When passing a equal or more then 32 bytes long string to psi_write(),
psi_write() copies 31 bytes to its buf and overwrites buf[30]
with '\0'. Which makes the input string 1 byte shorter than
it should be.
Fix it by copying sizeof(buf) bytes when nbytes >= sizeof(buf).
This does not cause problems in normal use case like:
"some 500000 10000000" or "full 500000 10000000" because they
are less than 32 bytes in length.
/* assuming nbytes == 35 */
char buf[32];
buf_size = min(nbytes, (sizeof(buf) - 1)); /* buf_size = 31 */
if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
return -EFAULT;
buf[buf_size - 1] = '\0'; /* buf[30] = '\0' */
Before:
%cd /proc/pressure/
%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1234" > memory
[ 22.473497] nbytes=35,buf_size=31
[ 22.473775] 123456789|123456789|123456789| (print 30 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument
%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1" > memory
[ 64.916162] nbytes=32,buf_size=31
[ 64.916331] 123456789|123456789|123456789| (print 30 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument
After:
%cd /proc/pressure/
%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1234" > memory
[ 254.837863] nbytes=35,buf_size=32
[ 254.838541] 123456789|123456789|123456789|1 (print 31 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument
%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1" > memory
[ 9965.714935] nbytes=32,buf_size=32
[ 9965.715096] 123456789|123456789|123456789|1 (print 31 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument
Also remove the superfluous parentheses.
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
kernel/sched/psi.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
index 7acc632..4b14a32 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ static ssize_t psi_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
if (static_branch_likely(&psi_disabled))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- buf_size = min(nbytes, (sizeof(buf) - 1));
+ buf_size = min(nbytes, sizeof(buf));
if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
return -EFAULT;
From: Miles Chen
> Sent: 13 September 2019 23:43
> The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:
>
> Commit-ID: 4adcdcea717cb2d8436bef00dd689aa5bc76f11b
> Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/4adcdcea717cb2d8436bef00dd689aa5bc76f11b
> Author: Miles Chen <[email protected]>
> AuthorDate: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:34:52 +08:00
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> CommitterDate: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:49:28 +02:00
>
> sched/psi: Correct overly pessimistic size calculation
>
> When passing a equal or more then 32 bytes long string to psi_write(),
> psi_write() copies 31 bytes to its buf and overwrites buf[30]
> with '\0'. Which makes the input string 1 byte shorter than
> it should be.
>
> Fix it by copying sizeof(buf) bytes when nbytes >= sizeof(buf).
>
> This does not cause problems in normal use case like:
> "some 500000 10000000" or "full 500000 10000000" because they
> are less than 32 bytes in length.
>
> /* assuming nbytes == 35 */
> char buf[32];
>
> buf_size = min(nbytes, (sizeof(buf) - 1)); /* buf_size = 31 */
> if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
> return -EFAULT;
>
> buf[buf_size - 1] = '\0'; /* buf[30] = '\0' */
Wouldn't it be better to also allow the user to pass
an unterminated string?
So leave the '-1' on the assignment to buf_size, but remove
it from the last line.
David
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