Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/base: Fix unsigned comparison to -1 in CPUMAP_FILE_MAX_BYTES

[Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 01:02:45PM +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 06:19:23PM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 01:59:53PM -0700 Yury Norov wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 04:35:42PM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> > > > As PAGE_SIZE is unsigned long, -1 > PAGE_SIZE when NR_CPUS <= 3.
> > > > This leads to very large file sizes:
> > > > 
> > > > topology$ ls -l
> > > > total 0
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 18446744073709551615 Sep  5 11:59 core_cpus
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root                 4096 Sep  5 11:59 core_cpus_list
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root                 4096 Sep  5 10:58 core_id
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 18446744073709551615 Sep  5 10:10 core_siblings
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root                 4096 Sep  5 11:59 core_siblings_list
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 18446744073709551615 Sep  5 11:59 die_cpus
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root                 4096 Sep  5 11:59 die_cpus_list
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root                 4096 Sep  5 11:59 die_id
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 18446744073709551615 Sep  5 11:59 package_cpus
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root                 4096 Sep  5 11:59 package_cpus_list
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root                 4096 Sep  5 10:58 physical_package_id
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 18446744073709551615 Sep  5 10:10 thread_siblings
> > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root                 4096 Sep  5 11:59 thread_siblings_list
> > > > 
> > > > Adjust the inequality to catch the case when NR_CPUS is configured
> > > > to a small value.
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes: 7ee951acd31a ("drivers/base: fix userspace break from using bin_attributes for cpumap and cpulist")
> > > > Reported-by: feng xiangjun <fengxj325@gmail.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
> > > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> > > > Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > > Cc: feng xiangjun <fengxj325@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > Applied on bitmap-for-next. Thanks!
> > >
> > 
> > Great, thanks!
> 
> This is hitting people already and causing problems, so I'll go add it
> to my tree as well to get it to Linus quicker.  Here's one report of the
> problem:
> 	https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/1810
>

Arrgh! Thanks Greg. I stopped watching it when it got merged above but yeah,
this needs to get in soon and then get into any stable trees that got the first
one. Sorry about that!

Cheers,
Phil


> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

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