Re: [PATCH RFC v2 3/4] mm/mempolicy: fix the check of nodemask from user

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On 10/31/2017 12:01 PM, Yisheng Xie wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2017/10/31 17:30, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 10/27/2017 12:14 PM, Yisheng Xie wrote:
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * When the user specified more nodes than supported just check
>>> +	 * if the non supported part is all zero.
>>> +	 *
>>> +	 * If maxnode have more longs than MAX_NUMNODES, check
>>> +	 * the bits in that area first. And then go through to
>>> +	 * check the rest bits which equal or bigger than MAX_NUMNODES.
>>> +	 * Otherwise, just check bits [MAX_NUMNODES, maxnode).
>>> +	 */
>>>  	if (nlongs > BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NUMNODES)) {
>>>  		for (k = BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NUMNODES); k < nlongs; k++) {
>>> -			unsigned long t;
>>>  			if (get_user(t, nmask + k))
>>>  				return -EFAULT;
>>>  			if (k == nlongs - 1) {
>>> @@ -1294,6 +1301,16 @@ static int get_nodes(nodemask_t *nodes, const unsigned long __user *nmask,
>>>  		endmask = ~0UL;
>>>  	}
>>>  
>>> +	if (maxnode > MAX_NUMNODES && MAX_NUMNODES % BITS_PER_LONG != 0) {
>>> +		unsigned long valid_mask = endmask;
>>> +
>>> +		valid_mask &= ~((1UL << (MAX_NUMNODES % BITS_PER_LONG)) - 1);
>>
>> I'm not sure if the combination with endmask works in this case:
>>
>> 0      BITS_PER_LONG  2xBITS_PER_LONG
>> |____________|____________|
>>        |             |
>>   MAX_NUMNODES      maxnode
>>
>> endmask will contain bits between 0 and maxnode
> 
> In the case, BITS_TO_LONGS(maxnode) > BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NUMNODES), right?
> And after checking BITS_PER_LONG to 2xBITS_PER_LONG,endmask will set to
> "~0UL". e.g. endmask will be 0xffff ffff ffff ffff if
> unsigned long is 64bit.
> 
> Then the valid_mask will just contain bits MAX_NUMNODES to BITS_PER_LONG.

Ugh, right. I missed that. This code is not simple...

> Thanks
> Yisheng Xie
> 
>> but here we want to check bits between MAX_NUMNODES and BITS_PER_LONG
>> and endmask should not be mixed up with that?
>>
>>
>> Vlastimil
>>
> 
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