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cpumask: use nr_cpumask_bits for parsing functions
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 8 Feb 2017 22:30:56 +0000 (14:30 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 8 Feb 2017 23:41:43 +0000 (15:41 -0800)
commit4d59b6ccf000862beed6fc0765d3209f98a8d8a2
tree598294e81b74149a78ebed29b3a9ce6c53b1e1e1
parent0911d0041c22922228ca52a977d7b0b0159fee4b
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/20170206182442.GB31078@htj.duckdns.org
Fixes: 513e3d2d11c9 ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and parsing functions")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Martin Steigerwald <martin.steigerwald@teamix.de>
Debugged-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/cpumask.h