From 3b3376f222e3ab58367d9dd405cafd09d5e37b7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lin Feng Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:20:53 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file 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, }, {