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Message-Id: <1304894407-32201-90-git-send-email-lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 00:39:41 +0200
From: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>
Subject: [v2 089/115] RFC: sysctl: change type of ctl_procfs_refs to u8
255 files per registered header should be enough for everyone.
If not, either:
- register another header (and another, and another) each with max 255 files
- change the type of ctl_procfs_refs to something bigger (e.g. u16)
This patch makes two assumptions:
- there will be at max a single inode created for each sysctl
file. That means that the ctl_table_header will be (at max)
incremented once for each of it's files. For directories the counter
will be incremented only once (when creating an inode for the
directory itself).
- there are no sysctl tables in the kernel with more than 255 entries.
Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>
---
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 12 +++++++++---
include/linux/sysctl.h | 11 +++++++----
kernel/sysctl.c | 10 +++++++++-
kernel/sysctl_check.c | 12 ++++++++++++
4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index b3e2453..9580794 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -20,13 +20,15 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode(struct super_block *sb,
struct inode *inode;
struct proc_inode *ei;
+ if (sysctl_proc_inode_get(head))
+ goto err_get;
+
inode = new_inode(sb);
if (!inode)
- goto out;
+ goto err_new_inode;
inode->i_ino = get_next_ino();
- sysctl_proc_inode_get(head);
ei = PROC_I(inode);
ei->sysctl = head;
ei->sysctl_entry = table;
@@ -44,8 +46,12 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode(struct super_block *sb,
inode->i_op = &proc_sys_dir_operations;
inode->i_fop = &proc_sys_dir_file_operations;
}
-out:
return inode;
+
+err_new_inode:
+ sysctl_proc_inode_put(head);
+err_get:
+ return NULL;
}
static struct ctl_table *find_in_table(struct ctl_table *p, struct qstr *name)
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 036d1aa..d5d9b66f 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ extern void sysctl_init_group(struct ctl_table_group *group,
/* get/put a reference to this header that
* will be/was embedded in a procfs proc_inode */
-extern void sysctl_proc_inode_get(struct ctl_table_header *);
+extern int sysctl_proc_inode_get(struct ctl_table_header *);
extern void sysctl_proc_inode_put(struct ctl_table_header *);
extern int sysctl_is_seen(struct ctl_table_header *);
@@ -1059,13 +1059,16 @@ struct ctl_table_header {
/* references to this header from contexts that
* can access fields of this header */
int ctl_use_refs;
- /* references to this header from procfs inodes.
- * procfs embeds a pointer to the header in proc_inode */
- int ctl_procfs_refs;
/* counts references to this header from other
* headers (through ->parent) plus the reference
* returned by __register_sysctl_paths */
int ctl_header_refs;
+ /* references to this header from procfs inodes.
+ * procfs embeds a pointer to the header in proc_inode.
+ * If there's at max one inode created per file then
+ * the max value of this is the number of files in the
+ * ctl_table array, or 1 for directories. */
+ u8 ctl_procfs_refs;
};
struct rcu_head rcu;
};
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 26c2bc6..3e30e78 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1546,11 +1546,19 @@ static void start_unregistering(struct ctl_table_header *p)
}
}
-void sysctl_proc_inode_get(struct ctl_table_header *head)
+int sysctl_proc_inode_get(struct ctl_table_header *head)
{
+ int err = 0;
spin_lock(&sysctl_lock);
head->ctl_procfs_refs++;
+ if (unlikely(head->ctl_procfs_refs == 0)) {
+ /* restore old value */
+ head->ctl_procfs_refs--;
+ err = 1;
+ WARN(head->ctl_procfs_refs == 0, "sysctl: ctl_procfs_refs overflow");
+ }
spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
+ return err;
}
static void free_head(struct rcu_head *rcu)
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_check.c b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
index b9573e0..205f721 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl_check.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ int sysctl_check_table(const struct ctl_path *path,
struct ctl_table *table)
{
struct ctl_table *t;
+ unsigned int max_bits, max_files;
+ unsigned int nr_files = 0;
int error = 0;
if (nr_dirs > CTL_MAXNAME - 1) {
@@ -37,6 +39,7 @@ int sysctl_check_table(const struct ctl_path *path,
}
for(t = table; t->procname; t++) {
+ nr_files ++;
if ((t->proc_handler == proc_dostring) ||
(t->proc_handler == proc_dointvec) ||
(t->proc_handler == proc_dointvec_minmax) ||
@@ -58,6 +61,15 @@ int sysctl_check_table(const struct ctl_path *path,
FAIL("bogus .mode");
}
+ /* make sure we can increment the header's ctl_procfs_refs
+ * counter for each file in the table. If this fails we either
+ * need to change the type of the ctl_procfs_refs variable, or
+ * register more tables in the same directory. */
+ max_bits = 8 * sizeof(((struct ctl_table_header *) 0)->ctl_procfs_refs);
+ max_files = 1 << max_bits;
+ if (nr_files >= max_files)
+ FAIL("too many files in registered table");
+
if (error)
dump_stack();
--
1.7.5.134.g1c08b
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