sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec
authorLiping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Apr 2017 15:51:07 +0000 (23:51 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:01:04 +0000 (15:01 +0200)
commit7bdacd3d9f4e7db08d5fde7758819c36d6ced11e
tree4c66bcf10efda8671f9bda9116ec154591d87a72
parent3a20c57b4332b8ff46c7317f7c62d9d68a5dc735
sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec

commit 425fffd886bae3d127a08fa6a17f2e31e24ed7ff upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/sysctl.c