linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] Fix handling of parse errors in sysfs

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Date:	Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:16:13 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, mel@....ul.ie,
	caiqian@...hat.com, mhocko@...e.cz, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Fix handling of parse errors in sysfs

On Wed,  5 Jan 2011 13:16:33 -0700
Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net> wrote:

> When parsing changes to the huge page pool sizes made from userspace
> via the sysfs interface, bogus input values are being covered up
> by nr_hugepages_store_common and nr_overcommit_hugepages_store
> returning 0 when strict_strtoul returns an error.  This can cause an
> infinite loop in the nr_hugepages_store code.  This patch changes
> the return value for these functions to -EINVAL when strict_strtoul
> returns an error.
> 

ah, OK, there we are.

> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 8585524..5cb71a9 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ static ssize_t nr_hugepages_store_common(bool obey_mempolicy,
>  
>  	err = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &count);
>  	if (err)
> -		return 0;
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	h = kobj_to_hstate(kobj, &nid);
>  	if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE) {
> @@ -1519,7 +1519,7 @@ static ssize_t nr_overcommit_hugepages_store(struct kobject *kobj,
>  
>  	err = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &input);
>  	if (err)
> -		return 0;
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
>  	h->nr_overcommit_huge_pages = input;

strict_strtoul() returns an errno - thise code should propagate it, not
overwrite it.

Here's what I ended up with:


diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~fix-handling-of-parse-errors-in-sysfs mm/hugetlb.c
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~fix-handling-of-parse-errors-in-sysfs
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1375,10 +1375,8 @@ static ssize_t nr_hugepages_store_common
 	NODEMASK_ALLOC(nodemask_t, nodes_allowed, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY);
 
 	err = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &count);
-	if (err) {
-		err = 0;		/* This seems wrong */
+	if (err)
 		goto out;
-	}
 
 	h = kobj_to_hstate(kobj, &nid);
 	if (h->order >= MAX_ORDER) {
@@ -1468,7 +1466,7 @@ static ssize_t nr_overcommit_hugepages_s
 
 	err = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &input);
 	if (err)
-		return 0;
+		return err;
 
 	spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
 	h->nr_overcommit_huge_pages = input;
_

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