Patch "sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg

to the 4.13-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:
     sched-sysctl-check-user-input-value-of-sysctl_sched_time_avg.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 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 5ccba44ba118a5000cccc50076b0344632459779 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 13:59:34 +0800
Subject: sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg

From: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com>

commit 5ccba44ba118a5000cccc50076b0344632459779 upstream.

System will hang if user set sysctl_sched_time_avg to 0:

  [root@XXX ~]# sysctl kernel.sched_time_avg_ms=0

  Stack traceback for pid 0
  0xffff883f6406c600 0 0 1 3 R 0xffff883f6406cf50 *swapper/3
  ffff883f7ccc3ae8 0000000000000018 ffffffff810c4dd0 0000000000000000
  0000000000017800 ffff883f7ccc3d78 0000000000000003 ffff883f7ccc3bf8
  ffffffff810c4fc9 ffff883f7ccc3c08 00000000810c5043 ffff883f7ccc3c08
  Call Trace:
  <IRQ> [<ffffffff810c4dd0>] ? update_group_capacity+0x110/0x200
  [<ffffffff810c4fc9>] ? update_sd_lb_stats+0x109/0x600
  [<ffffffff810c5507>] ? find_busiest_group+0x47/0x530
  [<ffffffff810c5b84>] ? load_balance+0x194/0x900
  [<ffffffff810ad5ca>] ? update_rq_clock.part.83+0x1a/0xe0
  [<ffffffff810c6d42>] ? rebalance_domains+0x152/0x290
  [<ffffffff810c6f5c>] ? run_rebalance_domains+0xdc/0x1d0
  [<ffffffff8108a75b>] ? __do_softirq+0xfb/0x320
  [<ffffffff8108ac85>] ? irq_exit+0x125/0x130
  [<ffffffff810b3a17>] ? scheduler_ipi+0x97/0x160
  [<ffffffff81052709>] ? smp_reschedule_interrupt+0x29/0x30
  [<ffffffff8173a1be>] ? reschedule_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
   <EOI> [<ffffffff815bc83c>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xcc/0x230
  [<ffffffff815bc80c>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x9c/0x230
  [<ffffffff815bc9d7>] ? cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20
  [<ffffffff810cd6dc>] ? cpu_startup_entry+0x38c/0x420
  [<ffffffff81053373>] ? start_secondary+0x173/0x1e0

Because divide-by-zero error happens in function:

update_group_capacity()
  update_cpu_capacity()
    scale_rt_capacity()
     {
          ...
          total = sched_avg_period() + delta;
          used = div_u64(avg, total);
          ...
     }

To fix this issue, check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg, keep
it unchanged when hitting invalid input, and set the minimum limit of
sysctl_sched_time_avg to 1 ms.

Reported-by: James Puthukattukaran <james.puthukattukaran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: ethan.kernel@gmail.com
Cc: keescook@chromium.org
Cc: mcgrof@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504504774-18253-1-git-send-email-ethan.zhao@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/sysctl.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -367,7 +367,8 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.data		= &sysctl_sched_time_avg,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= &one,
 	},
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
 	{


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ethan.zhao@oracle.com are

queue-4.13/sched-sysctl-check-user-input-value-of-sysctl_sched_time_avg.patch