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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 12:04:30PM -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

Yeah, lots of 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>
> ---
>  include/linux/cpumask.h | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/cpumask.h b/include/linux/cpumask.h
> index bd047864c7ac..7b1349612d6d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cpumask.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cpumask.h
> @@ -1127,9 +1127,10 @@ cpumap_print_list_to_buf(char *buf, const struct cpumask *mask,
>   * cover a worst-case of every other cpu being on one of two nodes for a
>   * very large NR_CPUS.
>   *
> - *  Use PAGE_SIZE as a minimum for smaller configurations.
> + *  Use PAGE_SIZE as a minimum for smaller configurations while avoiding
> + *  unsigned comparison to -1.
>   */
> -#define CPUMAP_FILE_MAX_BYTES  ((((NR_CPUS * 9)/32 - 1) > PAGE_SIZE) \
> +#define CPUMAP_FILE_MAX_BYTES  ((((NR_CPUS * 9)/32) > PAGE_SIZE + 1) \
>  					? (NR_CPUS * 9)/32 - 1 : PAGE_SIZE)
>  #define CPULIST_FILE_MAX_BYTES  (((NR_CPUS * 7)/2 > PAGE_SIZE) ? (NR_CPUS * 7)/2 : PAGE_SIZE)
>  
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

Nice catch.  What type of systems did you run this on to verify it will
work?

thanks,

greg k-h