staging/lustre/lnet: Fix assert on empty group in selftest module
The core of the issue is that the selftest module doesn't sanitize its own API, but it depends on lst utility to do such checks. As a result this issue manifests itself in this particular LU through an assert on an empty group. If the NID is misspelled then an empty group is added. An error output is provided, but if that's never checked in a batch script, as is the case with this issue, then the script will try to add an empty group to a test to run in a batch, and that will cause an assert The fix is two fold. Ensure that lst utility checks that a group is added with at least one node. If not the group is subsequently deleted. And the add_test command would fail, since the group no longer exists. The second fix is to ensure that the kernel module itself sanitizes its own API in this particular case, so that if a different utility is used other than lst to communicate with the selftest kernel module then this error would be caught. This fix looks up the batch and the groups, src and dst, in the ioctl handle and sanitizes that input at this point. If the group looked up either doesn't exist or doesn't have at least one ACTIVE node, then the command fails. NOTE:there are many other cases in the code where the selftest kernel module doesn't check for sanity of the input, but depends totally on the lst module to do such checks. Particularly around length of strings passed in. Thus it is possible to crash the selftest module if someone tries to create another userspace app to communicate with the selftest kernel module without ensuring sanity of the params sent to the kernel module. In effect, it's always assumed that lst is the front end for selftest and no other front end is to be used. Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3093 Lustre-change: http://review.whamcloud.com/6092 Signed-off-by: Amir Shehata <amir.shehata@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Isaac Huang <he.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Liang Zhen <liang.zhen@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> [coding style fix of the original patch is splitted into a new one -- PengTao] Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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