sysctl.c: fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table
authorLin Feng <linf@wangsu.com>
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:20:53 +0000 (17:20 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:41:03 +0000 (09:41 -0800)
commit3b3376f222e3ab58367d9dd405cafd09d5e37b7c
treedbe1cb937b2b318e6460f484fcb203a8344f9426
parent4508943794efdd94171549c0bd52810e2f4ad9fe
sysctl.c: fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table

Apart from subsystem specific .proc_handler handler, all ctl_tables with
extra1 and extra2 members set should use proc_dointvec_minmax instead of
proc_dointvec, or the limit set in extra* never work and potentially echo
underflow values(negative numbers) is likely make system unstable.

Especially vfs_cache_pressure and zone_reclaim_mode, -1 is apparently not
a valid value, but we can set to them.  And then kernel may crash.

# echo -1 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201223105535.2875-1-linf@wangsu.com
Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linf@wangsu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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>
kernel/sysctl.c