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cpumask: use nr_cpumask_bits for parsing functions 

Commit 513e3d2d11 ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and
parsing functions") converted both cpumask printing and parsing
functions to use nr_cpu_ids instead of nr_cpumask_bits.  While this was
okay for the printing functions as it just picked one of the two output
formats that we were alternating between depending on a kernel config,
doing the same for parsing wasn't okay.

nr_cpumask_bits can be either nr_cpu_ids or NR_CPUS.  We can always use
nr_cpu_ids but that is a variable while NR_CPUS is a constant, so it can
be more efficient to use NR_CPUS when we can get away with it.
Converting the printing functions to nr_cpu_ids makes sense because it
affects how the masks get presented to userspace and doesn't break
anything; however, using nr_cpu_ids for parsing functions can
incorrectly leave the higher bits uninitialized while reading in these
masks from userland.  As all testing and comparison functions use
nr_cpumask_bits which can be larger than nr_cpu_ids, the parsed cpumasks
can erroneously yield false negative results.

This made the taskstats interface incorrectly return -EINVAL even when
the inputs were correct.

Fix it by restoring the parse functions to use nr_cpumask_bits instead
of nr_cpu_ids.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170206182442.GB31078@htj.duckdns.org
Fixes: 513e3d2d11 ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and parsing functions")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Martin Steigerwald <martin.steigerwald@teamix.de>
Debugged-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Tejun Heo 2017-02-08 14:30:56 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 0911d0041c
commit 4d59b6ccf0
1 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
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include/linux/cpumask.h
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@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static inline void cpumask_copy(struct cpumask *dstp,
static inline int cpumask_parse_user(const char __user *buf, int len,
struct cpumask *dstp)
{
return bitmap_parse_user(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpu_ids);
return bitmap_parse_user(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
}
/**
@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ static inline int cpumask_parselist_user(const char __user *buf, int len,
struct cpumask *dstp)
{
return bitmap_parselist_user(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp),
nr_cpu_ids);
nr_cpumask_bits);
}
/**
@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ static inline int cpumask_parse(const char *buf, struct cpumask *dstp)
char *nl = strchr(buf, '\n');
unsigned int len = nl ? (unsigned int)(nl - buf) : strlen(buf);
return bitmap_parse(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpu_ids);
return bitmap_parse(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
}
/**
@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ static inline int cpumask_parse(const char *buf, struct cpumask *dstp)
*/
static inline int cpulist_parse(const char *buf, struct cpumask *dstp)
{
return bitmap_parselist(buf, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpu_ids);
return bitmap_parselist(buf, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
}
/**