sysctl: enable strict writes
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:00:45 +0000 (15:00 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:37:16 +0000 (14:37 +0200)
commit2449a71eb98204fc54ff55ddd6825cc5141ce176
tree3606a48b264afec20beb16d41f2171fc276bbf85
parent1e0f216195a6d106ed50c386abffdf60f496d518
sysctl: enable strict writes

commit 41662f5cc55335807d39404371cfcbb1909304c4 upstream.

SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN was added in commit f4aacea2f5d1 ("sysctl: allow for
strict write position handling"), and released in v3.16 in August of
2014.  Since then I can find only 1 instance of non-zero offset
writing[1], and it was fixed immediately in CRIU[2].  As such, it
appears safe to flip this to the strict state now.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q="when%20file%20position%20was%20not%200"
[2] http://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-April/019819.html

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
kernel/sysctl.c