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Date:      Fri, 15 May 2009 09:02:39 +0200
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r192094 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <20090515070239.GQ58540@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200905141054.n4EAsvp1088977@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200905141054.n4EAsvp1088977@svn.freebsd.org>

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Hi Kostik,

* Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Log:
>   Do not advance req->oldidx when sysctl_old_user returning an
>   error due to copyout failure or short buffer.
>  =20
>   The later breaks the usermode iterators of the sysctl results that pack
>   arbitrary number of variable-sized structures. Iterator expects that
>   kernel filled exactly oldlen bytes, and tries to interpret half-filled
>   or garbage structure at the end of the buffer. In particular,
>   kinfo_getfile(3) segfaulted.
>  =20
>   Reported and tested by:	pho
>   MFC after:	3 weeks

Is it possible that this change introduces a regression? Right now
`pstat -t' gets stuck in an infinite loop. I've added the following
printf:

| Index: pstat.c
| =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
| --- pstat.c	(revision 192128)
| +++ pstat.c	(working copy)
| @@ -263,6 +263,7 @@
|  		if (errno !=3D ENOMEM)
|  			err(1, "sysctlbyname()");
|  		len *=3D 2;
| +		printf("Going to %zu\n", len);
|  		if ((xttys =3D realloc(xttys, len)) =3D=3D NULL)
|  			err(1, "realloc()");
|  	}

pstat on -CURRENT prints:

|       LINE   INQ  CAN  LIN  LOW  OUTQ  USE  LOW   COL  SESS  PGID STATE
| Going to 0
| Going to 0
| Going to 0
| ...

If I use the same patch on RELENG_6, I get the expected result:

|      LINE RAW CAN OUT IHIWT ILOWT OHWT LWT     COL STATE  SESS      PGID =
DISC
| Going to 272
| Going to 544
| Going to 1088
| Going to 2176
| Going to 4352
| Going to 8704
|   sysmouse  0   0   0     0     0    0   0       0 -             0     0 =
term
| ...

So the problem is that sysctl overwrites the len argument with 0, even
if it returns back to userspace with ENOMEM.

I see we have two changes in sysctl. In theory it could also be related
to jhb@'s changes to sysctl locking, but I suspect it's less likely.

--=20
 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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