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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 09:37:50 +0200
commit542d541c1eddd13ab8266d404160228f85eafe34 (patch)
tree5a592ef903742ccfb8f4b92929f65fa29f8afd2e /kernel/sched
parentab9ee18f4646c926992fe09c6adfbf05c6e34162 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-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 f7e4579e746c..c4b702fe1d73 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 */