Re: [PATCH net v2 1/1] ethtool: Fix mod state of verbose no_mask bitset

From: Simon Horman
Date: Sat Oct 07 2023 - 11:57:38 EST


On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:12:46PM +0200, Köry Maincent wrote:
> From: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> A bitset without mask in a _SET request means we want exactly the bits in
> the bitset to be set. This works correctly for compact format but when
> verbose format is parsed, ethnl_update_bitset32_verbose() only sets the
> bits present in the request bitset but does not clear the rest. The commit
> 6699170376ab fixes this issue by clearing the whole target bitmap before we
> start iterating. The solution proposed brought an issue with the behavior
> of the mod variable. As the bitset is always cleared the old val will
> always differ to the new val.
>
> Fix it by adding a new temporary variable which save the state of the old
> bitmap.
>
> Fixes: 6699170376ab ("ethtool: fix application of verbose no_mask bitset")
> Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Fix the allocated size.
> ---
> net/ethtool/bitset.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ethtool/bitset.c b/net/ethtool/bitset.c
> index 0515d6604b3b..8a6b35c920cd 100644
> --- a/net/ethtool/bitset.c
> +++ b/net/ethtool/bitset.c
> @@ -432,7 +432,9 @@ ethnl_update_bitset32_verbose(u32 *bitmap, unsigned int nbits,
> struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, bool *mod)
> {
> struct nlattr *bit_attr;
> + u32 *tmp = NULL;
> bool no_mask;
> + bool dummy;
> int rem;
> int ret;
>
> @@ -448,8 +450,16 @@ ethnl_update_bitset32_verbose(u32 *bitmap, unsigned int nbits,
> }
>
> no_mask = tb[ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_NOMASK];
> - if (no_mask)
> - ethnl_bitmap32_clear(bitmap, 0, nbits, mod);
> + if (no_mask) {
> + unsigned int nwords = DIV_ROUND_UP(nbits, 32);
> + unsigned int nbytes = nwords * sizeof(u32);

Hi Köry,

Thanks for addressing my concerns regarding the size calculations in v1.

I think that a comment is warranted describing the fact that only the map,
and not the mask part, is taken into account in the size calculations
above.

> +
> + tmp = kcalloc(nwords, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!tmp)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + memcpy(tmp, bitmap, nbytes);
> + ethnl_bitmap32_clear(bitmap, 0, nbits, &dummy);
> + }

Perhaps we could consider something line the following.
Which would avoid the need for the n_mask condition
in the nla_for_each_nested() loop further below.

...

saved_bitmap = kcalloc(nwords, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!saved_bitmap)
return -ENOMEM;
memcpy(saved_bitmap, bitmap, nbytes);
ethnl_bitmap32_clear(bitmap, 0, nbits, &dummy);

orig_bitmap = saved_bitmap;
} else {
orig_bitmap = bitmap;
}

(Choosing names for variables seems hard today.)

>
> nla_for_each_nested(bit_attr, tb[ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS], rem) {
> bool old_val, new_val;
> @@ -458,13 +468,19 @@ ethnl_update_bitset32_verbose(u32 *bitmap, unsigned int nbits,
> if (nla_type(bit_attr) != ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS_BIT) {
> NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, bit_attr,
> "only ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS_BIT allowed in ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_BITS");
> - return -EINVAL;
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> }
> ret = ethnl_parse_bit(&idx, &new_val, nbits, bit_attr, no_mask,
> names, extack);
> if (ret < 0)
> - return ret;
> - old_val = bitmap[idx / 32] & ((u32)1 << (idx % 32));
> + goto out;
> +
> + if (no_mask)
> + old_val = tmp[idx / 32] & ((u32)1 << (idx % 32));
> + else
> + old_val = bitmap[idx / 32] & ((u32)1 << (idx % 32));
> +
> if (new_val != old_val) {
> if (new_val)
> bitmap[idx / 32] |= ((u32)1 << (idx % 32));
> @@ -474,7 +490,10 @@ ethnl_update_bitset32_verbose(u32 *bitmap, unsigned int nbits,
> }
> }
>
> - return 0;
> + ret = 0;
> +out:
> + kfree(tmp);
> + return ret;
> }
>
> static int ethnl_compact_sanity_checks(unsigned int nbits,
> --
> 2.25.1
>