Re: [PATCH] blk-mq: avoid sysfs buffer overflow by too many CPU cores

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On 11/2/19 6:25 PM, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> Ming,
> 
> On 11/02/2019 01:02 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
>> It is reported that sysfs buffer overflow can be triggered in case
>> of too many CPU cores(>841 on 4K PAGE_SIZE) when showing CPUs of
>> hctx via/sys/block/$DEV/mq/$N/cpu_list.
>>
>> So use snprintf for avoiding the potential buffer overflow.
>>
>> This version doesn't change the attribute format, and simply stop
>> to show CPU number if the buffer is to be overflow.
> 
> Does it make sense to also add a print or WARN_ON in case of overflow ?

Just more noise I think, really wouldn't serve any purpose.


-- 
Jens Axboe




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