On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 06:19:23PM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 01:59:53PM -0700 Yury Norov wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 04:35:42PM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> > > As PAGE_SIZE is unsigned long, -1 > PAGE_SIZE when NR_CPUS <= 3.
> > > This leads to very large file sizes:
> > >
> > > topology$ ls -l
> > > total 0
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 18446744073709551615 Sep 5 11:59 core_cpus
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 11:59 core_cpus_list
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 10:58 core_id
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 18446744073709551615 Sep 5 10:10 core_siblings
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 11:59 core_siblings_list
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 18446744073709551615 Sep 5 11:59 die_cpus
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 11:59 die_cpus_list
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 11:59 die_id
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 18446744073709551615 Sep 5 11:59 package_cpus
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 11:59 package_cpus_list
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 10:58 physical_package_id
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 18446744073709551615 Sep 5 10:10 thread_siblings
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 11:59 thread_siblings_list
> > >
> > > Adjust the inequality to catch the case when NR_CPUS is configured
> > > to a small value.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 7ee951acd31a ("drivers/base: fix userspace break from using bin_attributes for cpumap and cpulist")
> > > Reported-by: feng xiangjun <fengxj325@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: feng xiangjun <fengxj325@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Applied on bitmap-for-next. Thanks!
> >
>
> Great, thanks!
This is hitting people already and causing problems, so I'll go add it
to my tree as well to get it to Linus quicker. Here's one report of the
problem:
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/1810
thanks,
greg k-h
