[PATCH 6.1 004/195] sched/rt: Disallow writing invalid values to sched_rt_period_us

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-02-27T14:12:45Z

From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>

commit 079be8fc630943d9fc70a97807feb73d169ee3fc upstream.

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@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115553.3007-2-chrubis@suse.cz
Cc: Mahmoud Adam <mngyadam@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/sched/rt.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- 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",
@@ -2970,9 +2974,6 @@ static int sched_rt_global_constraints(v
#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 *
@@ -3003,7 +3004,7 @@ static int sched_rt_handler(struct ctl_t
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();