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author | Tejun Heo <[email protected]> | 2017-02-08 14:30:56 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2017-02-08 15:41:43 -0800 |
commit | 4d59b6ccf000862beed6fc0765d3209f98a8d8a2 (patch) | |
tree | 598294e81b74149a78ebed29b3a9ce6c53b1e1e1 /lib/test-string_helpers.c | |
parent | 0911d0041c22922228ca52a977d7b0b0159fee4b (diff) |
cpumask: use nr_cpumask_bits for parsing functions
Commit 513e3d2d11c9 ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and
parsing functions") converted both cpumask printing and parsing
functions to use nr_cpu_ids instead of nr_cpumask_bits. While this was
okay for the printing functions as it just picked one of the two output
formats that we were alternating between depending on a kernel config,
doing the same for parsing wasn't okay.
nr_cpumask_bits can be either nr_cpu_ids or NR_CPUS. We can always use
nr_cpu_ids but that is a variable while NR_CPUS is a constant, so it can
be more efficient to use NR_CPUS when we can get away with it.
Converting the printing functions to nr_cpu_ids makes sense because it
affects how the masks get presented to userspace and doesn't break
anything; however, using nr_cpu_ids for parsing functions can
incorrectly leave the higher bits uninitialized while reading in these
masks from userland. As all testing and comparison functions use
nr_cpumask_bits which can be larger than nr_cpu_ids, the parsed cpumasks
can erroneously yield false negative results.
This made the taskstats interface incorrectly return -EINVAL even when
the inputs were correct.
Fix it by restoring the parse functions to use nr_cpumask_bits instead
of nr_cpu_ids.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 513e3d2d11c9 ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and parsing functions")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]>
Debugged-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [4.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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