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Subject[PATCH 4.9 01/21] kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space()
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4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

commit 4d9570158b6260f449e317a5f9ed030c2504a615 upstream.

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/20171213133940.GA6554@redhat.com
Fixes: 32dc73086015 ("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>
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>

---
kernel/acct.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static int check_free_space(struct bsd_a
{
struct kstatfs sbuf;

- if (time_is_before_jiffies(acct->needcheck))
+ if (time_is_after_jiffies(acct->needcheck))
goto out;

/* May block */

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