On 2013/4/15 22:15, Jonghwan Choi wrote:
> From: libin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch looks like it should be in the 3.8-stable tree, should we apply
> it?
>
yes, I think this patch should be applied to the 3.8-stable tree. Thanks.
Libin
> ------------------
>
> From: "libin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx>"
>
> commit fd9b86d37a600488dbd80fe60cca46b822bff1cd upstream
>
> Commit 201c373e8e ("sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on
> sysctl") was an incomplete bug fix.
>
> This patch fixes sd->*_idx limit range to [0 ~ CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX-1]
> avoiding array overflow caused by setting sd->*_idx to CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX
> on sysctl.
>
> Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <guohanjun@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51626610.2040607@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 26058d0..112a32a 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -4948,7 +4948,7 @@ static void sd_free_ctl_entry(struct ctl_table **tablep)
> }
>
> static int min_load_idx = 0;
> -static int max_load_idx = CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX;
> +static int max_load_idx = CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX-1;
>
> static void
> set_table_entry(struct ctl_table *entry,
>
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