This commit contains 3 modifies: 1.Convert the type of jiffies_scan_wait to "unsigned long". 2.Use READ/WRITE_ONCE() for accessing "jiffies_scan_wait". 3.Fix the possible wrong memory scanning period. If you set a large memory scanning period like blow, then the "secs" variable will be non-zero, however the value of "jiffies_scan_wait" will be zero. echo "scan=0x10000000" > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak It is because the type of the msecs_to_jiffies()'s parameter is "unsigned int", and the "secs * 1000" is larger than its max value. This in turn leads a unexpected jiffies_scan_wait, maybe zero. We corret it by replacing kstrtoul() with kstrtouint(), and check the msecs to prevent it larger than UINT_MAX. Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kmemleak.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c index 92a2d4885808..228a2fbe0657 100644 --- a/mm/kmemleak.c +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static struct task_struct *scan_thread; static unsigned long jiffies_min_age; static unsigned long jiffies_last_scan; /* delay between automatic memory scannings */ -static signed long jiffies_scan_wait; +static unsigned long jiffies_scan_wait; /* enables or disables the task stacks scanning */ static int kmemleak_stack_scan = 1; /* protects the memory scanning, parameters and debug/kmemleak file access */ @@ -1567,7 +1567,7 @@ static int kmemleak_scan_thread(void *arg) } while (!kthread_should_stop()) { - signed long timeout = jiffies_scan_wait; + signed long timeout = READ_ONCE(jiffies_scan_wait); mutex_lock(&scan_mutex); kmemleak_scan(); @@ -1807,14 +1807,20 @@ static ssize_t kmemleak_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf, else if (strncmp(buf, "scan=off", 8) == 0) stop_scan_thread(); else if (strncmp(buf, "scan=", 5) == 0) { - unsigned long secs; + unsigned secs; + unsigned long msecs; - ret = kstrtoul(buf + 5, 0, &secs); + ret = kstrtouint(buf + 5, 0, &secs); if (ret < 0) goto out; + + msecs = secs * MSEC_PER_SEC; + if (msecs > UINT_MAX) + msecs = UINT_MAX; + stop_scan_thread(); - if (secs) { - jiffies_scan_wait = msecs_to_jiffies(secs * 1000); + if (msecs) { + WRITE_ONCE(jiffies_scan_wait, msecs_to_jiffies(msecs)); start_scan_thread(); } } else if (strncmp(buf, "scan", 4) == 0) -- 2.27.0