linux-kernel - [tip:sched/core] sched/debug: Fix potential call to __ffs(0) in sched_show

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Message-ID: <tip-1f8a7633094b7886c0677b78ba60b82e501f3ce6@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2015 06:02:10 -0800
From:	tip-bot for Tetsuo Handa <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched/debug: Fix potential call to __ffs(0)
  in sched_show_task()

Commit-ID:  1f8a7633094b7886c0677b78ba60b82e501f3ce6
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1f8a7633094b7886c0677b78ba60b82e501f3ce6
Author:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
AuthorDate: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 21:22:22 +0900
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:34:15 +0100

sched/debug: Fix potential call to __ffs(0) in sched_show_task()

"struct task_struct"->state is "volatile long" and __ffs() warns that
"Undefined if no bit exists, so code should check against 0 first."

Therefore, at expression

  state = p->state ? __ffs(p->state) + 1 : 0;

in sched_show_task(), CPU might see "p->state" before "?" as "non-zero"
but "p->state" after "?" as "zero", which could result in
"state >= sizeof(stat_nam)" being true and bogus '?' is printed.

This patch changes "state" from "unsigned int" to "unsigned long" and
save "p->state" before calling __ffs(), in order to avoid potential call
to __ffs(0).

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201412052131.GCE35924.FVHFOtLOJOMQFS@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 56c9b79..816c172 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4508,9 +4508,10 @@ void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	unsigned long free = 0;
 	int ppid;
-	unsigned state;
+	unsigned long state = p->state;
 
-	state = p->state ? __ffs(p->state) + 1 : 0;
+	if (state)
+		state = __ffs(state) + 1;
 	printk(KERN_INFO "%-15.15s %c", p->comm,
 		state < sizeof(stat_nam) - 1 ? stat_nam[state] : '?');
 #if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
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