sysctl: return -EINVAL if val violates minmax
authorChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Tue, 14 May 2019 22:44:55 +0000 (15:44 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:54:51 +0000 (11:54 +0200)
commit869febe16b3e18bc908e66e8798185842f007f24
treedd7005d0e0a4f59a08edc192a31b00d95ed621a7
parent33440c22a76f5e97def0960c1b378353eed7f946
sysctl: return -EINVAL if val violates minmax

[ Upstream commit e260ad01f0aa9e96b5386d5cd7184afd949dc457 ]

Currently when userspace gives us a values that overflow e.g.  file-max
and other callers of __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() we simply ignore the
new value and leave the current value untouched.

This can be problematic as it gives the illusion that the limit has
indeed be bumped when in fact it failed.  This commit makes sure to
return EINVAL when an overflow is detected.  Please note that this is a
userspace facing change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190210203943.8227-4-christian@brauner.io
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.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