Re: [PATCH v2] ucounts: add missing data type changes

From: Alexey Gladkov
Date: Mon Jul 26 2021 - 15:06:26 EST


On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 02:52:33PM +0200, Sven Schnelle wrote:
> commit f9c82a4ea89c3 ("Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t")
> changed the data type of ucounts/ucounts_max to long, but missed to
> adjust a few other places. This is noticeable on big endian platforms
> from user space because the /proc/sys/user/max_*_names files all
> contain 0.
>
> Fixes: f9c82a4ea89c ("Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t")
> Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@xxxxxxxxxx>

Eric, what do you think ?

> ---
> fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 10 ++++++----
> kernel/ucount.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
> index 64864fb40b40..6576657a1a25 100644
> --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
> +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
> @@ -58,18 +58,20 @@ struct ctl_table fanotify_table[] = {
> {
> .procname = "max_user_groups",
> .data = &init_user_ns.ucount_max[UCOUNT_FANOTIFY_GROUPS],
> - .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> + .maxlen = sizeof(long),
> .mode = 0644,
> - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
> + .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
> .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
> + .extra2 = SYSCTL_INT_MAX,
> },
> {
> .procname = "max_user_marks",
> .data = &init_user_ns.ucount_max[UCOUNT_FANOTIFY_MARKS],
> - .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> + .maxlen = sizeof(long),
> .mode = 0644,
> - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
> + .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
> .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
> + .extra2 = SYSCTL_INT_MAX,
> },
> {
> .procname = "max_queued_events",
> diff --git a/kernel/ucount.c b/kernel/ucount.c
> index 87799e2379bd..f852591e395c 100644
> --- a/kernel/ucount.c
> +++ b/kernel/ucount.c
> @@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ static struct ctl_table_root set_root = {
> .permissions = set_permissions,
> };
>
> -#define UCOUNT_ENTRY(name) \
> - { \
> - .procname = name, \
> - .maxlen = sizeof(int), \
> - .mode = 0644, \
> - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, \
> - .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, \
> - .extra2 = SYSCTL_INT_MAX, \
> +#define UCOUNT_ENTRY(name) \
> + { \
> + .procname = name, \
> + .maxlen = sizeof(long), \
> + .mode = 0644, \
> + .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax, \
> + .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, \
> + .extra2 = SYSCTL_INT_MAX, \
> }
> static struct ctl_table user_table[] = {
> UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_user_namespaces"),
> --
> 2.25.1
>

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Rgrds, legion