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Message-ID: <529E0F3A.9020608@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:04:58 +0100
From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...il.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, tglx@...utronix.de,
mingo@...hat.com, oleg@...hat.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
darren@...art.com, johan.eker@...csson.com, p.faure@...tech.ch,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, claudio@...dence.eu.com,
michael@...rulasolutions.com, fchecconi@...il.com,
tommaso.cucinotta@...up.it, nicola.manica@...i.unitn.it,
luca.abeni@...tn.it, dhaval.giani@...il.com, hgu1972@...il.com,
paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, raistlin@...ux.it,
insop.song@...il.com, liming.wang@...driver.com, jkacur@...hat.com,
harald.gustafsson@...csson.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
bruce.ashfield@...driver.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] sched: add extended scheduling interface. (new
ABI)
On 12/03/2013 05:41 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:13:44 +0100
> Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/30/2013 03:06 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>
>>> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:14:03PM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
>>>>> +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sched_getattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, attr)
>>>>> {
>>>>> - struct sched_param2 lp;
>>>>> + struct sched_attr lp;
>>>>> struct task_struct *p;
>>>>> int retval;
>>>>>
>>>>> - if (!param2 || pid < 0)
>>>>> + if (!attr || pid < 0)
>>>>> return -EINVAL;
>>>>>
>>>>> + memset(&lp, 0, sizeof(struct sched_attr));
>>>>> +
>>>>> rcu_read_lock();
>>>>> p = find_process_by_pid(pid);
>>>>> retval = -ESRCH;
>>>>> @@ -3427,7 +3495,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sched_getparam2, pid_t, pid, struct sched_param2 __user *, param
>>>>> lp.sched_priority = p->rt_priority;
>>>>> rcu_read_unlock();
>>>>>
>>>>> - retval = copy_to_user(param2, &lp, sizeof(lp)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
>>>>> + retval = copy_to_user(attr, &lp, sizeof(lp)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
>>>>> return retval;
>>>>>
>>>>> out_unlock:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So this side needs a bit more care; suppose the kernel has a larger attr
>>>> than userspace knows about.
>>>>
>>>> What would make more sense; add another syscall argument with the
>>>> userspace sizeof(struct sched_attr), or expect userspace to initialize
>>>> attr->size to the right value before calling sched_getattr() ?
>>>>
>>>> To me the extra argument makes more sense; that is:
>>>>
>>>> struct sched_attr attr;
>>>>
>>>> ret = sched_getattr(0, &attr, sizeof(attr));
>>>>
>>>> seems like a saner thing than:
>>>>
>>>> struct sched_attr attr = { .size = sizeof(attr), };
>>>>
>>>> ret = sched_getattr(0, &attr);
>>>>
>>>> Mostly because the former has a clear separation between input and
>>>> output arguments, whereas for the second form the attr argument is
>>>> both input and output.
>>>>
>>>> Ingo?
>>>
>>> I suppose so - in the sys_perf_event_open() case we ran out of
>>> arguments, so attr::size was the only sane way to do it.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, I modified it like this:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Subject: [PATCH] fixup: add checks for sys_sched_getattr
>>
>> Add an extra argument to the syscall with the userspace
>> sizeof(struct sched_attr) to be able to handle situations
>> when the kernel has a larger attr than userspace knows about.
>> ---
>> include/linux/syscalls.h | 3 ++-
>> kernel/sched/core.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>> 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
>> index fbdf44a..45ce599 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
>> @@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_sched_getscheduler(pid_t pid);
>> asmlinkage long sys_sched_getparam(pid_t pid,
>> struct sched_param __user *param);
>> asmlinkage long sys_sched_getattr(pid_t pid,
>> - struct sched_attr __user *attr);
>> + struct sched_attr __user *attr,
>> + unsigned int size);
>> asmlinkage long sys_sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
>> unsigned long __user *user_mask_ptr);
>> asmlinkage long sys_sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
>> index fe755f7..b7d91c6 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
>> @@ -3507,7 +3507,7 @@ do_sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int policy, struct sched_param __user *param)
>> }
>>
>> /*
>> - * Mimics kerner/events/core.c perf_copy_attr().
>> + * Mimics kernel/events/core.c perf_copy_attr().
>> */
>> static int sched_copy_attr(struct sched_attr __user *uattr,
>> struct sched_attr *attr)
>> @@ -3726,18 +3726,65 @@ out_unlock:
>> return retval;
>> }
>>
>> +static int sched_read_attr(struct sched_attr __user *uattr,
>> + struct sched_attr *attr,
>> + unsigned int size,
>> + unsigned int usize)
>> +{
>> + int ret;
>> +
>> + if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uattr, SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0))
>
> We want to verify from uattr to usize, right? As that is what we are
> writing to.
>
Right. s/SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0/usize/
>> + return -EFAULT;
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * zero the full structure, so that a short copy will be nice.
>> + */
>> + memset(uattr, 0, sizeof(*uattr));
>
> Wait! We can't write to user space like this, not to mention that usize
> may even be less than sizeof(struct sched_attr).
>
Ouch! I should never copy and paste.
>
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * If we're handed a smaller struct than we know of,
>> + * ensure all the unknown bits are 0 - i.e. old
>> + * user-space does not get uncomplete information.
>> + */
>> + if (usize < sizeof(*attr)) {
>> + unsigned char *addr;
>> + unsigned char *end;
>> +
>> + addr = (void *)attr + usize;
>> + end = (void *)attr + size;
>> +
>> + for (; addr < end; addr++)
>> + if (*addr)
>> + goto err_size;
>> + }
>> +
But, if we got here, we know that all is zero after usize and that
usize >= SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 (see below). So it should be safe to
copy_to_user() without the memset (since attr has been already zeroed),
do I get it right?
Thanks,
- Juri
>> + ret = copy_to_user(uattr, attr, usize);
>> + if (ret)
>> + return -EFAULT;
>> +
>> +out:
>> + return ret;
>> +
>> +err_size:
>> + ret = -E2BIG;
>> + goto out;
>> +}
>> +
>> /**
>> * sys_sched_getattr - same as above, but with extended "sched_param"
>> * @pid: the pid in question.
>> * @attr: structure containing the extended parameters.
>> + * @size: sizeof(attr) for fwd/bwd comp.
>> */
>> -SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sched_getattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, attr)
>> +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_getattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, attr,
>> + unsigned int, size)
>> {
>> struct sched_attr lp;
>> struct task_struct *p;
>> int retval;
>>
>> - if (!attr || pid < 0)
>> + if (!attr || pid < 0 || size > PAGE_SIZE ||
>> + size < SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0)
>> return -EINVAL;
>>
>> memset(&lp, 0, sizeof(struct sched_attr));
>> @@ -3758,7 +3805,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sched_getattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, attr)
>> lp.sched_priority = p->rt_priority;
>> rcu_read_unlock();
>>
>> - retval = copy_to_user(attr, &lp, sizeof(lp)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
>> + retval = sched_read_attr(attr, &lp, sizeof(lp), size);
>> return retval;
>>
>> out_unlock:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Do we need to make sched_setattr symmetrical, or, since the user has
>> to fill the fields anyway, we leave it as is?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Juri
>
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