linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/13] libnvdimm, namespace: Publish page structure init state / control

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20180705210007.GC28447@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 5 Jul 2018 14:00:07 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/13] libnvdimm, namespace: Publish page structure init
 state / control

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 01:24:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:49:41 +0200 Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 07:46:05AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > ...but that also allows 'echo "syncAndThenSomeGarbage" >
> > > /sys/.../memmap_state' to succeed.
> > 
> > Yep it does :-(.
> > 
> > Damn
> 
> sysfs_streq()

Thanks!  I didn't know that one existed.

It's kind of a shame that we realised this was a problem and decided
to solve it this way back in 2008 instead of realising that no driver
actually cares whether there's a \n or not and stripping off the \n
before the driver gets to see it.  Probably too late to fix that now.