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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2018-01-04 16:17:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-01-04 16:45:09 -0800
commit4d9570158b6260f449e317a5f9ed030c2504a615 (patch)
tree77da2f830a29e6ec14e98e14158801e84330faf0 /kernel
parente8c24773d6b2cd9bc8b36bd6e60beff599be14be (diff)
downloadlinux-4d9570158b6260f449e317a5f9ed030c2504a615.tar.bz2
kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space()
As Tsukada explains, the time_is_before_jiffies(acct->needcheck) check is very wrong, we need time_is_after_jiffies() to make sys_acct() work. Ignoring the overflows, the code should "goto out" if needcheck > jiffies, while currently it checks "needcheck < jiffies" and thus in the likely case check_free_space() does nothing until jiffies overflow. In particular this means that sys_acct() is simply broken, acct_on() sets acct->needcheck = jiffies and expects that check_free_space() should set acct->active = 1 after the free-space check, but this won't happen if jiffies increments in between. This was broken by commit 32dc73086015 ("get rid of timer in kern/acct.c") in 2011, then another (correct) commit 795a2f22a8ea ("acct() should honour the limits from the very beginning") made the problem more visible. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171213133940.GA6554@redhat.com Fixes: 32dc73086015 ("get rid of timer in kern/acct.c") Reported-by: TSUKADA Koutaro <tsukada@ascade.co.jp> Suggested-by: TSUKADA Koutaro <tsukada@ascade.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/acct.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c
index d15c0ee4d955..addf7732fb56 100644
--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static int check_free_space(struct bsd_acct_struct *acct)
{
struct kstatfs sbuf;
- if (time_is_before_jiffies(acct->needcheck))
+ if (time_is_after_jiffies(acct->needcheck))
goto out;
/* May block */