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The cpumask_check() was unnecessarily tight, and causes problems for the users of cpumask_next(). We have a number of users that take the previous return value of one of the bit scanning functions and subtract one to keep it in "range". But since the scanning functions end up returning up to 'small_cpumask_bits' instead of the tighter 'nr_cpumask_bits', the range really needs to be using that widened form. [ This "previous-1" behavior is also the reason we have all those comments about /* -1 is a legal arg here. */ and separate checks for that being ok. So we could have just made "small_cpumask_bits-1" be a similar special "don't check this" value. Tetsuo Handa even suggested a patch that only does that for cpumask_next(), since that seems to be the only actual case that triggers, but that all makes it even _more_ magical and special. So just relax the check ] One example of this kind of pattern being the 'c_start()' function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c, but also duplicated in various forms on other architectures. Reported-by: syzbot+96cae094d90877641f32@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=96cae094d90877641f32 Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c1f4cc16-feea-b83c-82cf-1a1f007b7eb9@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp/ Fixes: 596ff4a09b89 ("cpumask: re-introduce constant-sized cpumask optimizations") Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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.