Patch "kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space()" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space()

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kernel-acct.c-fix-the-acct-needcheck-check-in-check_free_space.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4d9570158b6260f449e317a5f9ed030c2504a615 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:17:49 -0800
Subject: kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space()

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

commit 4d9570158b6260f449e317a5f9ed030c2504a615 upstream.

As Tsukada explains, the time_is_before_jiffies(acct->needcheck) check
is very wrong, we need time_is_after_jiffies() to make sys_acct() work.

Ignoring the overflows, the code should "goto out" if needcheck >
jiffies, while currently it checks "needcheck < jiffies" and thus in the
likely case check_free_space() does nothing until jiffies overflow.

In particular this means that sys_acct() is simply broken, acct_on()
sets acct->needcheck = jiffies and expects that check_free_space()
should set acct->active = 1 after the free-space check, but this won't
happen if jiffies increments in between.

This was broken by commit 32dc73086015 ("get rid of timer in
kern/acct.c") in 2011, then another (correct) commit 795a2f22a8ea
("acct() should honour the limits from the very beginning") made the
problem more visible.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171213133940.GA6554@redhat.com
Fixes: 32dc73086015 ("get rid of timer in kern/acct.c")
Reported-by: TSUKADA Koutaro <tsukada@ascade.co.jp>
Suggested-by: TSUKADA Koutaro <tsukada@ascade.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/acct.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static int check_free_space(struct bsd_a
 {
 	struct kstatfs sbuf;
 
-	if (time_is_before_jiffies(acct->needcheck))
+	if (time_is_after_jiffies(acct->needcheck))
 		goto out;
 
 	/* May block */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oleg@redhat.com are

queue-3.18/kernel-acct.c-fix-the-acct-needcheck-check-in-check_free_space.patch