If thp defrag setting "defer" is used and a newline is *not* used when writing to the sysfs file, this is interpreted as the "defer+madvise" option. This is because we do prefix matching and if five characters are written without a newline, the current code ends up comparing to the first five bytes of the "defer+madvise" option and using that instead. Use the more appropriate sysfs_streq() that handles the trailing newline for us. Since this doubles as a nice cleanup, do it in enabled_store() as well. Fixes: 21440d7eb904 ("mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option") Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Latest 5.5-rc6 doesn't boot for me, something to be debugged separately, so this was tested on 5.4. No changes in this area, however, between the two kernels. mm/huge_memory.c | 24 ++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 13cc93785006..1c61dea937bc 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -177,16 +177,13 @@ static ssize_t enabled_store(struct kobject *kobj, { ssize_t ret = count; - if (!memcmp("always", buf, - min(sizeof("always")-1, count))) { + if (sysfs_streq(buf, "always")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("never", buf, - min(sizeof("never")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "never")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); } else @@ -250,32 +247,27 @@ static ssize_t defrag_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count) { - if (!memcmp("always", buf, - min(sizeof("always")-1, count))) { + if (sysfs_streq(buf, "always")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("defer+madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("defer+madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "defer+madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("defer", buf, - min(sizeof("defer")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "defer")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("never", buf, - min(sizeof("never")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "never")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags);