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| author | Lin Feng <linf@wangsu.com> | 2021-02-25 17:20:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-02-26 09:41:03 -0800 |
| commit | 3b3376f222e3ab58367d9dd405cafd09d5e37b7c (patch) | |
| tree | dbe1cb937b2b318e6460f484fcb203a8344f9426 /kernel | |
| parent | 4508943794efdd94171549c0bd52810e2f4ad9fe (diff) | |
| download | linux-3b3376f222e3ab58367d9dd405cafd09d5e37b7c.tar.bz2 | |
sysctl.c: fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table
Apart from subsystem specific .proc_handler handler, all ctl_tables with
extra1 and extra2 members set should use proc_dointvec_minmax instead of
proc_dointvec, or the limit set in extra* never work and potentially echo
underflow values(negative numbers) is likely make system unstable.
Especially vfs_cache_pressure and zone_reclaim_mode, -1 is apparently not
a valid value, but we can set to them. And then kernel may crash.
# echo -1 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201223105535.2875-1-linf@wangsu.com
Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linf@wangsu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index c9fbdd848138..62fbd09b5dc1 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2962,7 +2962,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .data = &block_dump, .maxlen = sizeof(block_dump), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, }, { @@ -2970,7 +2970,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .data = &sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure, .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, }, #if defined(HAVE_ARCH_PICK_MMAP_LAYOUT) || \ @@ -2980,7 +2980,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .data = &sysctl_legacy_va_layout, .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_legacy_va_layout), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, }, #endif @@ -2990,7 +2990,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .data = &node_reclaim_mode, .maxlen = sizeof(node_reclaim_mode), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, }, { |