linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Reject invalid NUMA option

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Date:   Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:11:32 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        catalin.marinas@....com, will@...nel.org, shan.gavin@...il.com,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Reject invalid NUMA option

[Adding Steve, who added str_has_prefix()]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 02:53:14PM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
> The NUMA option is parsed by str_has_prefix() and the invalid option
> like "numa=o" can be regarded as "numa=off" wrongly.

Are you certain that can pass? If that can happen, str_has_prefix() is
misnamed and does not seem to do what its kerneldoc says it does, as
"off" is not a prefix of "o".

> This fixes the issue with sysfs_streq(), which have more sanity checks,
> to avoid accepting the invalid options.

That doesn't sound immediately right, since this is an early parameter,
which has nothing to do with sysfs. Perhaps that's just a misleading
name?

Thanks,
Mark.

> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/numa.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c b/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
> index 4decf1659700..bd458b28616a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
> @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ static __init int numa_parse_early_param(char *opt)
>  {
>  	if (!opt)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> -	if (str_has_prefix(opt, "off"))
> +
> +	if (sysfs_streq(opt, "off"))
>  		numa_off = true;
>  
>  	return 0;
> -- 
> 2.23.0
>