Re: [PATCH v3] ucounts: add missing data type changes

[Eric W. Biederman]

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 08:28:54AM +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>
>
> This patch in -next as commit e43fc41d1f7f ("ucounts: add missing data type
> changes") causes Windows Subsystem for Linux to fail to start:
>
> [error 0x8007010b when launching `wsl.exe -d Arch'] Could not access starting
> directory "\\wsl$\Arch\home\nathan"
>
> Specifically, it is the change to max_user_watches in
> fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c, as the below diff gets me back to working.
> Unfortunately, I have no additional information to offer beyond that as WSL's
> init is custom and closed source (as far as I am aware) and there are no real
> debugging utilities.

Could you try this patch and tell us what value is being set?

The only think I can imagine is that someone wants unlimited watches and
sets the value to a ridiculously large value and the interpretation of
that value winds up being different between int and long.

This should allow you to read either dmesg or the kernel's log as it
boots up and see what value is being written.  From there it should
be relatively straight forward to figure out what is going on.

Thank you,
Eric


diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 272f4a272f8c..733c4cfa1f60 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -975,6 +975,14 @@ int proc_dointvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		.min = (int *) table->extra1,
 		.max = (int *) table->extra2,
 	};
+#if 1
+	size_t lenv = *lenp;
+	if (write && (lenv > 0) && (lenv < INT_MAX)) {
+		int len = lenv;
+		printk(KERN_EMERG "intvec: %s <- %*.*s\n",
+			table->procname, len, len, (char *)buffer);
+	}
+#endif
 	return do_proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos,
 				do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv, &param);
 }