kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space()
authorOleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:17:49 +0000 (16:17 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:45:09 +0000 (16:45 -0800)
commit4d9570158b6260f449e317a5f9ed030c2504a615
tree77da2f830a29e6ec14e98e14158801e84330faf0
parente8c24773d6b2cd9bc8b36bd6e60beff599be14be
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/[email protected]
Fixes: 32dc73086015 ("get rid of timer in kern/acct.c")
Reported-by: TSUKADA Koutaro <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: TSUKADA Koutaro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
kernel/acct.c