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cpuset: zero malloc - fix for old cpusets
The cpuset code to present a list of tasks using a cpuset to user space could write to an array that it had kmalloc'd, after a kmalloc request of zero size. The problem was that the code didn't check for writes past the allocated end of the array until -after- the first write. This is a race condition that is likely rare -- it would only show up if a cpuset went from being empty to having a task in it, during the brief time between the allocation and the first write. Prior to roughly 2.6.22 kernels, this was also a benign problem, because a zero kmalloc returned a few usable bytes anyway, and no harm was done with the bogus write. With the 2.6.22 kernel changes to make issue a warning if code tries to write to the location returned from a zero size allocation, this problem is no longer benign. This cpuset code would occassionally trigger that warning. The fix is trivial -- check before storing into the array, not after, whether the array is big enough to hold the store. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <[email protected]> Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <[email protected]> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Menage <[email protected]> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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@ -1682,9 +1682,9 @@ static int pid_array_load(pid_t *pidarray, int npids, struct cpuset *cs)
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do_each_thread(g, p) {
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if (p->cpuset == cs) {
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pidarray[n++] = p->pid;
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if (unlikely(n == npids))
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goto array_full;
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pidarray[n++] = p->pid;
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}
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} while_each_thread(g, p);
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