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Date:   Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:33:57 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Cyril Hrubis" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@...e.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: sched/core] sched/rt: Disallow writing invalid values to
 sched_rt_period_us

The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     079be8fc630943d9fc70a97807feb73d169ee3fc
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/079be8fc630943d9fc70a97807feb73d169ee3fc
Author:        Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@...e.cz>
AuthorDate:    Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:55:51 +02:00
Committer:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:15:56 +02:00

sched/rt: Disallow writing invalid values to sched_rt_period_us

The validation of the value written to sched_rt_period_us was broken
because:

  - the sysclt_sched_rt_period is declared as unsigned int
  - parsed by proc_do_intvec()
  - the range is asserted after the value parsed by proc_do_intvec()

Because of this negative values written to the file were written into a
unsigned integer that were later on interpreted as large positive
integers which did passed the check:

  if (sysclt_sched_rt_period <= 0)
	return EINVAL;

This commit fixes the parsing by setting explicit range for both
perid_us and runtime_us into the sched_rt_sysctls table and processes
the values with proc_dointvec_minmax() instead.

Alternatively if we wanted to use full range of unsigned int for the
period value we would have to split the proc_handler and use
proc_douintvec() for it however even the
Documentation/scheduller/sched-rt-group.rst describes the range as 1 to
INT_MAX.

As far as I can tell the only problem this causes is that the sysctl
file allows writing negative values which when read back may confuse
userspace.

There is also a LTP test being submitted for these sysctl files at:

  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ltp/patch/20230901144433.2526-1-chrubis@suse.cz/

Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115553.3007-2-chrubis@suse.cz
---
 kernel/sched/rt.c |  9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index 3b627ab..88fc986 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ static struct ctl_table sched_rt_sysctls[] = {
 		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = sched_rt_handler,
+		.extra1         = SYSCTL_ONE,
+		.extra2         = SYSCTL_INT_MAX,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname       = "sched_rt_runtime_us",
@@ -44,6 +46,8 @@ static struct ctl_table sched_rt_sysctls[] = {
 		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = sched_rt_handler,
+		.extra1         = SYSCTL_NEG_ONE,
+		.extra2         = SYSCTL_INT_MAX,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname       = "sched_rr_timeslice_ms",
@@ -2935,9 +2939,6 @@ static int sched_rt_global_constraints(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
 static int sched_rt_global_validate(void)
 {
-	if (sysctl_sched_rt_period <= 0)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	if ((sysctl_sched_rt_runtime != RUNTIME_INF) &&
 		((sysctl_sched_rt_runtime > sysctl_sched_rt_period) ||
 		 ((u64)sysctl_sched_rt_runtime *
@@ -2968,7 +2969,7 @@ static int sched_rt_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
 	old_period = sysctl_sched_rt_period;
 	old_runtime = sysctl_sched_rt_runtime;
 
-	ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 
 	if (!ret && write) {
 		ret = sched_rt_global_validate();