Jason Donenfeld reports that my commit
1c24a186398f ("fs: fd tables have
to be multiples of BITS_PER_LONG") doesn't work, and the reason is an
embarrassing brown-paper-bag bug.
Yes, we want to align the number of fds to BITS_PER_LONG, and yes, the
reason they might not be aligned is because the incoming 'max_fd'
argument might not be aligned.
But aligining the argument - while simple - will cause a "infinitely
big" maxfd (eg NR_OPEN_MAX) to just overflow to zero. Which most
definitely isn't what we want either.
The obvious fix was always just to do the alignment last, but I had
moved it earlier just to make the patch smaller and the code look
simpler. Duh. It certainly made _me_ look simple.
Fixes: 1c24a186398f ("fs: fd tables have to be multiples of BITS_PER_LONG")
Reported-and-tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Fedor Pchelkin <aissur0002@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
unsigned int count;
count = count_open_files(fdt);
- max_fds = ALIGN(max_fds, BITS_PER_LONG);
if (max_fds < NR_OPEN_DEFAULT)
max_fds = NR_OPEN_DEFAULT;
- return min(count, max_fds);
+ return ALIGN(min(count, max_fds), BITS_PER_LONG);
}
/*