From: Baokun Li Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 06:13:48 +0000 (-0800) Subject: sysctl: returns -EINVAL when a negative value is passed to proc_doulongvec_minmax X-Git-Tag: v6.1-rc5~2141^2~26 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1622ed7d0743201293094162c26019d2573ecacb;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git sysctl: returns -EINVAL when a negative value is passed to proc_doulongvec_minmax When we pass a negative value to the proc_doulongvec_minmax() function, the function returns 0, but the corresponding interface value does not change. we can easily reproduce this problem with the following commands: cd /proc/sys/fs/epoll echo -1 > max_user_watches; echo $?; cat max_user_watches This function requires a non-negative number to be passed in, so when a negative number is passed in, -EINVAL is returned. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211220092627.3744624-1-libaokun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Reported-by: Hulk Robot Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index e92e8d2..5ae443b 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1145,10 +1145,11 @@ static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table *table, err = proc_get_long(&p, &left, &val, &neg, proc_wspace_sep, sizeof(proc_wspace_sep), NULL); - if (err) + if (err || neg) { + err = -EINVAL; break; - if (neg) - continue; + } + val = convmul * val / convdiv; if ((min && val < *min) || (max && val > *max)) { err = -EINVAL;