sysctl.c: fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table
authorLin Feng <linf@wangsu.com>
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:20:53 +0000 (17:20 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:41:03 +0000 (09:41 -0800)
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>
kernel/sysctl.c

index c9fbdd8..62fbd09 100644 (file)
@@ -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,
        },
        {