[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 164/185] sched/psi: Correct overly pessimistic size calculation

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Sep 22 2019 - 15:22:36 EST


From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 4adcdcea717cb2d8436bef00dd689aa5bc76f11b ]

When passing a equal or more then 32 bytes long string to psi_write(),
psi_write() copies 31 bytes to its buf and overwrites buf[30]
with '\0'. Which makes the input string 1 byte shorter than
it should be.

Fix it by copying sizeof(buf) bytes when nbytes >= sizeof(buf).

This does not cause problems in normal use case like:
"some 500000 10000000" or "full 500000 10000000" because they
are less than 32 bytes in length.

/* assuming nbytes == 35 */
char buf[32];

buf_size = min(nbytes, (sizeof(buf) - 1)); /* buf_size = 31 */
if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
return -EFAULT;

buf[buf_size - 1] = '\0'; /* buf[30] = '\0' */

Before:

%cd /proc/pressure/
%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1234" > memory
[ 22.473497] nbytes=35,buf_size=31
[ 22.473775] 123456789|123456789|123456789| (print 30 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument

%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1" > memory
[ 64.916162] nbytes=32,buf_size=31
[ 64.916331] 123456789|123456789|123456789| (print 30 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument

After:

%cd /proc/pressure/
%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1234" > memory
[ 254.837863] nbytes=35,buf_size=32
[ 254.838541] 123456789|123456789|123456789|1 (print 31 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument

%echo "123456789|123456789|123456789|1" > memory
[ 9965.714935] nbytes=32,buf_size=32
[ 9965.715096] 123456789|123456789|123456789|1 (print 31 chars)
%sh: write error: Invalid argument

Also remove the superfluous parentheses.

Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-mediatek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <wsd_upstream@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190912103452.13281-1-miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/psi.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
index 6e52b67b420e7..517e3719027e6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
@@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ static ssize_t psi_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
if (static_branch_likely(&psi_disabled))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

- buf_size = min(nbytes, (sizeof(buf) - 1));
+ buf_size = min(nbytes, sizeof(buf));
if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
return -EFAULT;

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2.20.1