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    sched_getaffinity: don't assume 'cpumask_size()' is fully initialized · 6015b1ac
    Linus Torvalds authored
    The getaffinity() system call uses 'cpumask_size()' to decide how big
    the CPU mask is - so far so good.  It is indeed the allocation size of a
    cpumask.
    
    But the code also assumes that the whole allocation is initialized
    without actually doing so itself.  That's wrong, because we might have
    fixed-size allocations (making copying and clearing more efficient), but
    not all of it is then necessarily used if 'nr_cpu_ids' is smaller.
    
    Having checked other users of 'cpumask_size()', they all seem to be ok,
    either using it purely for the allocation size, or explicitly zeroing
    the cpumask before using the size in bytes to copy it.
    
    See for example the ublk_ctrl_get_queue_affinity() function that uses
    the proper 'zalloc_cpumask_var()' to make sure that the whole mask is
    cleared, whether the storage is on the stack or if it was an external
    allocation.
    
    Fix this by just zeroing the allocation before using it.  Do the same
    for the compat version of sched_getaffinity(), which had the same logic.
    
    Also, for consistency, make sched_getaffinity() use 'cpumask_bits()' to
    access the bits.  For a cpumask_var_t, it ends up being a pointer to the
    same data either way, but it's just a good idea to treat it like you
    would a 'cpumask_t'.  The compat case already did that.
    Reported-by: default avatarRyan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7d026744-6bd6-6827-0471-b5e8eae0be3f@arm.com/
    Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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