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 09:53:59 +0000 (11:53 +0200)
commit91ae202e2c88a026eb2065fbee10b8e80591a27d
tree094dd65c178b840b2ef9967fec183769dc4bd256
parent5b6619b4d206662f0f6df20fa660f468f56bb75d
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