From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.
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[ Upstream commit 4d9570158b6260f449e317a5f9ed030c2504a615 ]
As Tsukada explains, the time_is_before_jiffies(acct->needcheck) check
is very wrong, we need time_is_after_jiffies() to make sys_acct() work.
Ignoring the overflows, the code should "goto out" if needcheck >
jiffies, while currently it checks "needcheck < jiffies" and thus in the
likely case check_free_space() does nothing until jiffies overflow.
In particular this means that sys_acct() is simply broken, acct_on()
sets acct->needcheck = jiffies and expects that check_free_space()
should set acct->active = 1 after the free-space check, but this won't
happen if jiffies increments in between.
This was broken by commit 32dc73086015 ("get rid of timer in
kern/acct.c") in 2011, then another (correct) commit 795a2f22a8ea
("acct() should honour the limits from the very beginning") made the
problem more visible.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171213133940.GA6554@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 32dc73086015 ("get rid of timer in kern/acct.c")
Reported-by: TSUKADA Koutaro <tsukada@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: TSUKADA Koutaro <tsukada@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/acct.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c
index 74963d192c5d..37f1dc696fbd 100644
--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static int check_free_space(struct bsd_acct_struct *acct)
{
struct kstatfs sbuf;
- if (time_is_before_jiffies(acct->needcheck))
+ if (time_is_after_jiffies(acct->needcheck))
goto out;
/* May block */
--
2.14.1