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| author | Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com> | 2017-04-07 23:51:07 +0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-04-08 10:27:40 -0700 |
| commit | 425fffd886bae3d127a08fa6a17f2e31e24ed7ff (patch) | |
| tree | 7daa21454af6e1a533b6bfc4ba9015b09612b8e6 /kernel | |
| parent | 8b65bb57d87a66cd156f856f28f2bd72d7b2395e (diff) | |
sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec
Currently, inputting the following command will succeed but actually the
value will be truncated:
# echo 0x12ffffffff > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
This is not friendly to the user, so instead, we should report error
when the value is larger than UINT_MAX.
Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 8cca4c7bb21f..8c8714fcb53c 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2133,6 +2133,8 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp, if (write) { if (*negp) return -EINVAL; + if (*lvalp > UINT_MAX) + return -EINVAL; *valp = *lvalp; } else { unsigned int val = *valp; |