From: Lin Feng linf@wangsu.com
[ Upstream commit 3b3376f222e3ab58367d9dd405cafd09d5e37b7c ]
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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/sysctl.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index afad085960b8..b9306d2bb426 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2951,7 +2951,7 @@ 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, }, { @@ -2959,7 +2959,7 @@ 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) || \ @@ -2969,7 +2969,7 @@ 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 @@ -2979,7 +2979,7 @@ 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, }, {