mm: fix uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler
authorChen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com>
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 22:44:06 +0000 (15:44 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 23:13:35 +0000 (16:13 -0700)
commitbcbda81020c3ee77e2c098cadf3e84f99ca3de17
tree15d5aa803e5d16272dc2dbe348c67aab4939577a
parent5c91c0e77b8f2681e2b269c8abb4c5acef434d5b
mm: fix uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler

We get an unexpected value of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory after
running the following program:

  int main()
  {
      int fd = open("/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory", O_RDWR);
      write(fd, "1", 1);
      write(fd, "2", 1);
      close(fd);
  }

write(fd, "2", 1) will pass *ppos = 1 to proc_dointvec_minmax.
proc_dointvec_minmax will return 0 without setting new_policy.

  t.data = &new_policy;
  ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(&t, write, buffer, lenp, ppos)
      -->do_proc_dointvec
         -->__do_proc_dointvec
              if (write) {
                if (proc_first_pos_non_zero_ignore(ppos, table))
                  goto out;

  sysctl_overcommit_memory = new_policy;

so sysctl_overcommit_memory will be set to an uninitialized value.

Check whether new_policy has been changed by proc_dointvec_minmax.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923020524.13289-1-chenjun102@huawei.com
Fixes: 56f3547bfa4d ("mm: adjust vm_committed_as_batch according to vm overcommit policy")
Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/util.c