This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cpumask: use nr_cpumask_bits for parsing functions
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cpumask-use-nr_cpumask_bits-for-parsing-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4d59b6ccf000862beed6fc0765d3209f98a8d8a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 14:30:56 -0800
Subject: cpumask: use nr_cpumask_bits for parsing functions
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 4d59b6ccf000862beed6fc0765d3209f98a8d8a2 upstream.
Commit 513e3d2d11c9 ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and
parsing functions") converted both cpumask printing and parsing
functions to use nr_cpu_ids instead of nr_cpumask_bits. While this was
okay for the printing functions as it just picked one of the two output
formats that we were alternating between depending on a kernel config,
doing the same for parsing wasn't okay.
nr_cpumask_bits can be either nr_cpu_ids or NR_CPUS. We can always use
nr_cpu_ids but that is a variable while NR_CPUS is a constant, so it can
be more efficient to use NR_CPUS when we can get away with it.
Converting the printing functions to nr_cpu_ids makes sense because it
affects how the masks get presented to userspace and doesn't break
anything; however, using nr_cpu_ids for parsing functions can
incorrectly leave the higher bits uninitialized while reading in these
masks from userland. As all testing and comparison functions use
nr_cpumask_bits which can be larger than nr_cpu_ids, the parsed cpumasks
can erroneously yield false negative results.
This made the taskstats interface incorrectly return -EINVAL even when
the inputs were correct.
Fix it by restoring the parse functions to use nr_cpumask_bits instead
of nr_cpu_ids.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170206182442.GB31078@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 513e3d2d11c9 ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and parsing functions")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Martin Steigerwald <martin.steigerwald@xxxxxxxxx>
Debugged-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/cpumask.h | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/cpumask.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpumask.h
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ static inline void cpumask_copy(struct c
static inline int cpumask_parse_user(const char __user *buf, int len,
struct cpumask *dstp)
{
- return bitmap_parse_user(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpu_ids);
+ return bitmap_parse_user(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
}
/**
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ static inline int cpumask_parselist_user
struct cpumask *dstp)
{
return bitmap_parselist_user(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp),
- nr_cpu_ids);
+ nr_cpumask_bits);
}
/**
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ static inline int cpumask_parse(const ch
char *nl = strchr(buf, '\n');
unsigned int len = nl ? (unsigned int)(nl - buf) : strlen(buf);
- return bitmap_parse(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpu_ids);
+ return bitmap_parse(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
}
/**
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static inline int cpumask_parse(const ch
*/
static inline int cpulist_parse(const char *buf, struct cpumask *dstp)
{
- return bitmap_parselist(buf, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpu_ids);
+ return bitmap_parselist(buf, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
}
/**
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/cpumask-use-nr_cpumask_bits-for-parsing-functions.patch
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