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kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:17:49 +0000 (16:17 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:45:09 +0000 (16:45 -0800)
commit31b289d35d2f03658048adc48345d6eb726a77b0
tree77da2f830a29e6ec14e98e14158801e84330faf0
parentf72d5502973a49428fa2248b92c58f94be0b8300
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 e528385caa63 ("get rid of timer in
kern/acct.c") in 2011, then another (correct) commit 480592b6949a
("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: e528385caa63 ("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>
kernel/acct.c