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David Rientjes ef4676680b mm, thp: fix defrag setting if newline is not used 
commit f42f255265 upstream.

If thp defrag setting "defer" is used and a newline is *not* used when
writing to the sysfs file, this is interpreted as the "defer+madvise"
option.

This is because we do prefix matching and if five characters are written
without a newline, the current code ends up comparing to the first five
bytes of the "defer+madvise" option and using that instead.

Use the more appropriate sysfs_streq() that handles the trailing newline
for us.  Since this doubles as a nice cleanup, do it in enabled_store()
as well.

The current implementation relies on prefix matching: the number of
bytes compared is either the number of bytes written or the length of
the option being compared.  With a newline, "defer\n" does not match
"defer+"madvise"; without a newline, however, "defer" is considered to
match "defer+madvise" (prefix matching is only comparing the first five
bytes).  End result is that writing "defer" is broken unless it has an
additional trailing character.

This means that writing "madv" in the past would match and set
"madvise".  With strict checking, that no longer is the case but it is
unlikely anybody is currently doing this.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2001171411020.56385@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Fixes: 21440d7eb9 ("mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option")
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2020-03-05 16:45:25 +01:00
arch KVM: x86: Remove spurious clearing of async #PF MSR 2020-03-05 16:45:24 +01:00
block block, bfq: do not plug I/O for bfq_queues with no proc refs 2020-02-24 08:38:09 +01:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto crypto: rename sm3-256 to sm3 in hash_algo_name 2020-02-28 17:23:43 +01:00
Documentation netfilter: nf_flowtable: fix documentation 2020-03-05 16:45:24 +01:00
drivers clk: qcom: rpmh: Sort OF match table 2020-03-05 16:45:24 +01:00
fs xfs: clear kernel only flags in XFS_IOC_ATTRMULTI_BY_HANDLE 2020-03-05 16:45:25 +01:00
include lib/vdso: Make __arch_update_vdso_data() logic understandable 2020-03-05 16:45:22 +01:00
init Revert "um: Enable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS" 2020-02-01 09:33:00 +00:00
ipc Revert "ipc,sem: remove uneeded sem_undo_list lock usage in exit_sem()" 2020-02-28 17:23:36 +01:00
kernel locking/lockdep: Fix lockdep_stats indentation problem 2020-03-05 16:45:25 +01:00
lib crypto: chacha20poly1305 - prevent integer overflow on large input 2020-02-28 17:23:40 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm, thp: fix defrag setting if newline is not used 2020-03-05 16:45:25 +01:00
net netfilter: nft_tunnel: no need to call htons() when dumping ports 2020-03-05 16:45:24 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Set -fno-stack-protector when building BPF programs 2020-02-24 08:38:15 +01:00
scripts kbuild: fix DT binding schema rule to detect command line changes 2020-03-05 16:45:19 +01:00
security ima: ima/lsm policy rule loading logic bug fixes 2020-03-05 16:45:22 +01:00
sound ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Add iDisp4 DAI 2020-02-28 17:23:45 +01:00
tools perf maps: Add missing unlock to maps__insert() error case 2020-03-05 16:45:23 +01:00
usr gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix 'bad variable name' error 2020-01-04 00:00:48 +09:00
virt KVM: Check for a bad hva before dropping into the ghc slow path 2020-03-05 16:45:21 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: update my email address 2020-01-11 14:33:39 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Linux 5.4-rc4 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 17:23:36 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.5.7 2020-02-28 17:23:45 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.