fs.file-max sysctl uses proc_doulongvec_minmax() as proc handler, which accesses *extra1 and *extra2 as unsigned long, but commit 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max") assigns &zero, which is an int, to extra1, generating the following KASAN report. Fix this by changing 'zero' to long, which does not need to be duplicated like 'one' and 'one_ul' for two data types. ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x2f9/0x600 Read of size 8 at addr ffffffff8233dc20 by task systemd/1 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.1.0-rc2-kvm+ #22 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS ?-20180724_192412-buildhw-07.phx2.fedoraproject.org-1.fc29 04/01/2014 Call Trace: print_address_description+0x67/0x23d kasan_report.cold.3+0x1c/0x36 __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x2f9/0x600 proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x3a/0x50 proc_sys_call_handler+0x11d/0x170 vfs_write+0xd7/0x200 ksys_write+0x93/0x110 do_syscall_64+0x57/0x140 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 RIP: 0033:0x7f67d33e8804 Code: 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8d 05 f9 5e 0d 00 8b 00 85 c0 75 13 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 c3 0f 1f 00 41 54 49 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53 RSP: 002b:00007fffd9992ed8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f67d33e8804 RDX: 0000000000000015 RSI: 00005586ce2607b0 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 00007fffd9992f30 R08: 000000000000c0c0 R09: ffffffffffff0000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000004 R13: 0000000000000015 R14: 00005586ce2607c4 R15: 00007fffd9992f70 The buggy address belongs to the variable: 0xffffffff8233dc20 Memory state around the buggy address: ffffffff8233db00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa ffffffff8233db80: fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa >ffffffff8233dc00: fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 ^ ffffffff8233dc80: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffffffff8233dd00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ================================================================== Fixes: 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max") Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index e5da394d1ca3..3e959d67d619 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static int sixty = 60; static int __maybe_unused neg_one = -1; -static int zero; +static long zero; static int __maybe_unused one = 1; static int __maybe_unused two = 2; static int __maybe_unused four = 4; -- 2.20.1