linux-kernel - sched_setaffinity() with

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jun 2019 09:38:48 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: sched_setaffinity() with > 1024 cpus on gcc-9

I suspect that if I compile the following using gcc-9 It'll bleat
about going beyond the end of the array:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sched.h>

#define MAX_CPU 2048

int fubar(void)
{
        cpu_set_t *set = CPU_ALLOC(MAX_CPU);
        CPU_SET_S(MAX_CPU - 2, CPU_ALLOC_SIZE(MAX_CPU), set);
        return CPU_COUNT_S(CPU_ALLOC_SIZE(MAX_CPU), set);
}

I can't test since I don't have a copy of gcc-9.

The whole interface for > 1024 cpus looks horrid though.
Reading version 5.01 on the man page.
I'd have thought that if the application provided a short mask
to sched_setaffinity() the rest would be deemed to be zeros.
And that if an overlong mask is passed to sched_getaffinity()
the extra bytes/longs would either be zerod or unchanged.

       Be aware that CPU_ALLOC(3) may allocate a slightly larger CPU set
       than requested (because CPU sets are implemented as bit masks
       allocated in units of sizeof(long)).  Consequently,
       sched_getaffinity() can set bits beyond the requested allocation
       size, because the kernel sees a few additional bits.  Therefore, the
       caller should iterate over the bits in the returned set, counting
       those which are set, and stop upon reaching the value returned by
       CPU_COUNT(3) (rather than iterating over the number of bits requested
       to be allocated).

A short mask to sched_getaffinity() should also do something
more sensible than just returning an error.

	David

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