[PATCH] sched/rt: Disallow writing invalid values to sched_rt_period_us

From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ltp@lists.linux.it, Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/rt: Disallow writing invalid values to sched_rt_period_us
Date: Fri,  1 Sep 2023 17:43:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230901154355.5351-1-chrubis@suse.cz> (raw)

The validation of the value written to sched_rt_period_us was broken
because:

- the sysclt_sched_rt_period is declared as unsigned int
- parsed by proc_do_intvec()
- the range is asserted after the value parsed by proc_do_intvec()

Because of this negative values written to the file were written into a
unsigned integer that were later on interpreted as large positive
integers which did passed the check:

if (sysclt_sched_rt_period <= 0)
	return EINVAL;

This commit fixes the parsing by setting explicit range for both
perid_us and runtime_us into the sched_rt_sysctls table and processes
the values with proc_dointvec_minmax() instead.

Alternatively if we wanted to use full range of unsigned int for the
period value we would have to split the proc_handler and use
proc_douintvec() for it however even the
Documentation/scheduller/sched-rt-group.rst describes the range as 1 to
INT_MAX.

As far as I can tell the only problem this causes is that the sysctl
file allows writing negative values which when read back may confuse
userspace.

There is also a LTP test being submitted for these sysctl files at:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ltp/patch/20230901144433.2526-1-chrubis@suse.cz/

Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
---
 kernel/sched/rt.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index 0597ba0f85ff..aed3d55de2dd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ static struct ctl_table sched_rt_sysctls[] = {
 		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = sched_rt_handler,
+		.extra1         = SYSCTL_ONE,
+		.extra2         = SYSCTL_INT_MAX,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname       = "sched_rt_runtime_us",
@@ -44,6 +46,8 @@ static struct ctl_table sched_rt_sysctls[] = {
 		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = sched_rt_handler,
+		.extra1         = SYSCTL_NEG_ONE,
+		.extra2         = SYSCTL_INT_MAX,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname       = "sched_rr_timeslice_ms",
@@ -2985,9 +2989,6 @@ static int sched_rt_global_constraints(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
 static int sched_rt_global_validate(void)
 {
-	if (sysctl_sched_rt_period <= 0)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	if ((sysctl_sched_rt_runtime != RUNTIME_INF) &&
 		((sysctl_sched_rt_runtime > sysctl_sched_rt_period) ||
 		 ((u64)sysctl_sched_rt_runtime *
@@ -3018,7 +3019,7 @@ static int sched_rt_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
 	old_period = sysctl_sched_rt_period;
 	old_runtime = sysctl_sched_rt_runtime;
 
-	ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 
 	if (!ret && write) {
 		ret = sched_rt_global_validate();
-- 
2.41.0

