From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A02C10F27 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:20:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F9320873 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:20:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583846400; bh=mMpegqvCUE/XWiuKDNsYBG2O0fRKd5FLftKvcpeAULo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=Zuw9RgKKDbe7KUSRgEDlV54xSnkngG90BRTZhXCEhzMYiQKMh5js2wlVrMJGHsXj6 yb5SvFKNiBvhNyYxStQFG/+M+WmRYiwsNMr4B1ubdD03hRqRnF9ia79VyYyZO0PEmI elEyCYnxobxw3mWPoZneR65UsMo406jJuk5QNWT4= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731323AbgCJNT7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:19:59 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54332 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731060AbgCJNIG (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:08:06 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CA9562071B; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:08:04 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583845685; bh=mMpegqvCUE/XWiuKDNsYBG2O0fRKd5FLftKvcpeAULo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=LwIhnuPD0Ofgx675Xo8+jwUjfmbciCZZtP4wze6m5KW4J9kVLSYsliHKSMOOTfU39 DD/rlnX3V3v8KwgDf2htOoXAgUS8ixAslSSPmvocOrWLCwmjEpQxgGcycJMXxP1IkI o6vzN01T8uGww0vCIPVqe60lZuaFdvOYU4IppzHk= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Vlastimil Babka , Mel Gorman , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 4.14 064/126] mm, thp: fix defrag setting if newline is not used Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:41:25 +0100 Message-Id: <20200310124208.188044362@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20200310124203.704193207@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20200310124203.704193207@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Rientjes commit f42f25526502d851d0e3ca1e46297da8aafce8a7 upstream. If thp defrag setting "defer" is used and a newline is *not* used when writing to the sysfs file, this is interpreted as the "defer+madvise" option. This is because we do prefix matching and if five characters are written without a newline, the current code ends up comparing to the first five bytes of the "defer+madvise" option and using that instead. Use the more appropriate sysfs_streq() that handles the trailing newline for us. Since this doubles as a nice cleanup, do it in enabled_store() as well. The current implementation relies on prefix matching: the number of bytes compared is either the number of bytes written or the length of the option being compared. With a newline, "defer\n" does not match "defer+"madvise"; without a newline, however, "defer" is considered to match "defer+madvise" (prefix matching is only comparing the first five bytes). End result is that writing "defer" is broken unless it has an additional trailing character. This means that writing "madv" in the past would match and set "madvise". With strict checking, that no longer is the case but it is unlikely anybody is currently doing this. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2001171411020.56385@chino.kir.corp.google.com Fixes: 21440d7eb904 ("mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option") Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/huge_memory.c | 24 ++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -163,16 +163,13 @@ static ssize_t enabled_store(struct kobj { ssize_t ret = count; - if (!memcmp("always", buf, - min(sizeof("always")-1, count))) { + if (sysfs_streq(buf, "always")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("never", buf, - min(sizeof("never")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "never")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); } else @@ -236,32 +233,27 @@ static ssize_t defrag_store(struct kobje struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count) { - if (!memcmp("always", buf, - min(sizeof("always")-1, count))) { + if (sysfs_streq(buf, "always")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("defer+madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("defer+madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "defer+madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("defer", buf, - min(sizeof("defer")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "defer")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("never", buf, - min(sizeof("never")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "never")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags);