From: David Rientjes rientjes@google.com
commit f42f25526502d851d0e3ca1e46297da8aafce8a7 upstream.
If thp defrag setting "defer" is used and a newline is *not* used when writing to the sysfs file, this is interpreted as the "defer+madvise" option.
This is because we do prefix matching and if five characters are written without a newline, the current code ends up comparing to the first five bytes of the "defer+madvise" option and using that instead.
Use the more appropriate sysfs_streq() that handles the trailing newline for us. Since this doubles as a nice cleanup, do it in enabled_store() as well.
The current implementation relies on prefix matching: the number of bytes compared is either the number of bytes written or the length of the option being compared. With a newline, "defer\n" does not match "defer+"madvise"; without a newline, however, "defer" is considered to match "defer+madvise" (prefix matching is only comparing the first five bytes). End result is that writing "defer" is broken unless it has an additional trailing character.
This means that writing "madv" in the past would match and set "madvise". With strict checking, that no longer is the case but it is unlikely anybody is currently doing this.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2001171411020.56385@chino.kir.corp.... Fixes: 21440d7eb904 ("mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option") Signed-off-by: David Rientjes rientjes@google.com Suggested-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- mm/huge_memory.c | 24 ++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -163,16 +163,13 @@ static ssize_t enabled_store(struct kobj { ssize_t ret = count;
- if (!memcmp("always", buf, - min(sizeof("always")-1, count))) { + if (sysfs_streq(buf, "always")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("never", buf, - min(sizeof("never")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "never")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); } else @@ -236,32 +233,27 @@ static ssize_t defrag_store(struct kobje struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count) { - if (!memcmp("always", buf, - min(sizeof("always")-1, count))) { + if (sysfs_streq(buf, "always")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("defer+madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("defer+madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "defer+madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("defer", buf, - min(sizeof("defer")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "defer")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("never", buf, - min(sizeof("never")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "never")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags);