sysctl: add some missing input constraint checks
authorPetr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:43:09 +0000 (16:43 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:46:51 +0000 (19:46 -0700)
Add boundaries of allowed input ranges for: dirty_expire_centisecs,
drop_caches, overcommit_memory, page-cluster and panic_on_oom.

Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/drop_caches.c
kernel/sysctl.c

index 2195c21..816f88e 100644 (file)
@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@ static void drop_slab(void)
 int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
        void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
 {
-       proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
+       int ret;
+
+       ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
+       if (ret)
+               return ret;
        if (write) {
                if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1)
                        iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
index 40245d6..97ab169 100644 (file)
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ static int neg_one = -1;
 static int zero;
 static int __maybe_unused one = 1;
 static int __maybe_unused two = 2;
+static int __maybe_unused three = 3;
 static unsigned long one_ul = 1;
 static int one_hundred = 100;
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
@@ -971,14 +972,18 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
                .data           = &sysctl_overcommit_memory,
                .maxlen         = sizeof(sysctl_overcommit_memory),
                .mode           = 0644,
-               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
+               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+               .extra1         = &zero,
+               .extra2         = &two,
        },
        {
                .procname       = "panic_on_oom",
                .data           = &sysctl_panic_on_oom,
                .maxlen         = sizeof(sysctl_panic_on_oom),
                .mode           = 0644,
-               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
+               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+               .extra1         = &zero,
+               .extra2         = &two,
        },
        {
                .procname       = "oom_kill_allocating_task",
@@ -1006,7 +1011,8 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
                .data           = &page_cluster,
                .maxlen         = sizeof(int),
                .mode           = 0644,
-               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
+               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+               .extra1         = &zero,
        },
        {
                .procname       = "dirty_background_ratio",
@@ -1054,7 +1060,8 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
                .data           = &dirty_expire_interval,
                .maxlen         = sizeof(dirty_expire_interval),
                .mode           = 0644,
-               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
+               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+               .extra1         = &zero,
        },
        {
                .procname       = "nr_pdflush_threads",
@@ -1130,6 +1137,8 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
                .maxlen         = sizeof(int),
                .mode           = 0644,
                .proc_handler   = drop_caches_sysctl_handler,
+               .extra1         = &one,
+               .extra2         = &three,
        },
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
        {