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authorValentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>2020-04-15 22:05:05 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-07-09 09:39:28 +0200
commit4464672ae9e0e69d0f46af3893302cc3aa41e694 (patch)
tree2143009d123bdada3ad845b5aa343e24c86d11d9
parent18b1cf2968e1baa883dbdf6adef6213626beaa0f (diff)
sched/debug: Make sd->flags sysctl read-only
[ Upstream commit 9818427c6270a9ce8c52c8621026fe9cebae0f92 ] Writing to the sysctl of a sched_domain->flags directly updates the value of the field, and goes nowhere near update_top_cache_domain(). This means that the cached domain pointers can end up containing stale data (e.g. the domain pointed to doesn't have the relevant flag set anymore). Explicit domain walks that check for flags will be affected by the write, but this won't be in sync with the cached pointers which will still point to the domains that were cached at the last sched_domain build. In other words, writing to this interface is playing a dangerous game. It could be made to trigger an update of the cached sched_domain pointers when written to, but this does not seem to be worth the trouble. Make it read-only. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200415210512.805-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/debug.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index 239970b991c0..0f4aaad236a9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ sd_alloc_ctl_domain_table(struct sched_domain *sd)
set_table_entry(&table[2], "busy_factor", &sd->busy_factor, sizeof(int), 0644, proc_dointvec_minmax);
set_table_entry(&table[3], "imbalance_pct", &sd->imbalance_pct, sizeof(int), 0644, proc_dointvec_minmax);
set_table_entry(&table[4], "cache_nice_tries", &sd->cache_nice_tries, sizeof(int), 0644, proc_dointvec_minmax);
- set_table_entry(&table[5], "flags", &sd->flags, sizeof(int), 0644, proc_dointvec_minmax);
+ set_table_entry(&table[5], "flags", &sd->flags, sizeof(int), 0444, proc_dointvec_minmax);
set_table_entry(&table[6], "max_newidle_lb_cost", &sd->max_newidle_lb_cost, sizeof(long), 0644, proc_doulongvec_minmax);
set_table_entry(&table[7], "name", sd->name, CORENAME_MAX_SIZE, 0444, proc_dostring);
/* &table[8] is terminator */