This bug has apparently existed since the introduction of this function in the pre-git era (4500e91754d3 in Thomas Gleixner's history.git, "[NET]: Add proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies, use it for proper handling of neighbour sysctls."). As a minimal fix we can simply duplicate the corresponding check in do_proc_dointvec_conv().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.2+ Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss zev@bewilderbeest.net --- kernel/sysctl.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 5fc724e4e454..a71c4b3935bc 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2564,7 +2564,16 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp, { struct do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv_param *param = data; if (write) { - int val = *negp ? -*lvalp : *lvalp; + int val; + if (*negp) { + if (*lvalp > (unsigned long) INT_MAX + 1) + return -EINVAL; + val = -*lvalp; + } else { + if (*lvalp > (unsigned long) INT_MAX) + return -EINVAL; + val = *lvalp; + } if ((param->min && *param->min > val) || (param->max && *param->max < val)) return -EINVAL;