linux-kernel - Re: [Phishing Risk] [External] Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: Fix a race between hugetlb sysctl handlers

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Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:34:48 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
To:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     mike.kravetz@...cle.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        npiggin@...e.de, agl@...ibm.com, nacc@...ibm.com,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Phishing Risk] [External] Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: Fix a race
 between hugetlb sysctl handlers

HI Andi,

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 11:34 PM Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> > Fixes: e5ff215941d5 ("hugetlb: multiple hstates for multiple page sizes")
>
> I don't think the Fixes line is correct. The original patch
> just used a global variable and didn't have this race.
> It must have been added later in some other patch that added
> hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common.

I don't agree with you. The 'e5ff215941d5' is not used a global
variable. Below is the code snippet of this patch. Thanks.

@@ -1037,8 +1109,19 @@ int hugetlb_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table
*table, int write,
                           struct file *file, void __user *buffer,
                           size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
 {
+       struct hstate *h = &default_hstate;
+       unsigned long tmp;

Here is a local variable of tmp.

+
+       if (!write)
+               tmp = h->max_huge_pages;
+
+       table->data = &tmp;
+       table->maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long);
        proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
-       max_huge_pages = set_max_huge_pages(max_huge_pages);
+
+       if (write)
+               h->max_huge_pages = set_max_huge_pages(h, tmp);
+
        return 0;
 }


>
> -Andi



-- 
Yours,
Muchun