Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 1 author, 2018-12-23
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[PATCH 06/11] bcache: fix potential div-zero error of writeback_rate_i_term_inverse

From: Coly Li <hidden>
Date: 2018-12-23 11:10:45
Subsystem: bcache (block layer cache), the rest · Maintainers: Coly Li, Kent Overstreet, Linus Torvalds

dc->writeback_rate_i_term_inverse can be set via sysfs interface. It is
in type unsigned int, and convert from input string by d_strtoul(). The
problem is d_strtoul() does not check valid range of the input, if
4294967296 is written into sysfs file writeback_rate_i_term_inverse,
an overflow of unsigned integer will happen and value 0 is set to
dc->writeback_rate_i_term_inverse.

In writeback.c:__update_writeback_rate(), there are following lines of
code,
      integral_scaled = div_s64(dc->writeback_rate_integral,
                      dc->writeback_rate_i_term_inverse);
If dc->writeback_rate_i_term_inverse is set to 0 via sysfs interface,
a div-zero error might be triggered in the above code.

Therefore we need to add a range limitation in the sysfs interface,
this is what this patch does, use sysfs_stroul_clamp() to replace
d_strtoul() and restrict the input range in [1, UINT_MAX].

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <redacted>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c b/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c
index 16cd710f5f8b..d57ab24e9ccd 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c
@@ -298,7 +298,9 @@ STORE(__cached_dev)
 	sysfs_strtoul_clamp(writeback_rate_update_seconds,
 			    dc->writeback_rate_update_seconds,
 			    1, WRITEBACK_RATE_UPDATE_SECS_MAX);
-	d_strtoul(writeback_rate_i_term_inverse);
+	sysfs_strtoul_clamp(writeback_rate_i_term_inverse,
+			    dc->writeback_rate_i_term_inverse,
+			    1, UINT_MAX);
 	d_strtoul_nonzero(writeback_rate_p_term_inverse);
 	d_strtoul_nonzero(writeback_rate_minimum);
 
-- 
2.16.4
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