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    mm, thp: fix defrag setting if newline is not used · f42f2552
    David Rientjes authored
    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: 21440d7e ("mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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