From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This error path returned directly instead of calling sysctl_head_finish(). Fixes: ef9d965bc8b6 ("sysctl: reject gigantic reads/write to sysctl files") Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index 42c5128c7d1c76..6c1166ccdaea57 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -566,8 +566,9 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct file *filp, void __user *ubuf, goto out; /* don't even try if the size is too large */ - if (count > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) - return -ENOMEM; + error = -ENOMEM; + if (count >= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) + goto out; if (write) { kbuf = memdup_user_nul(ubuf, count); @@ -576,7 +577,6 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct file *filp, void __user *ubuf, goto out; } } else { - error = -ENOMEM; kbuf = kzalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); if (!kbuf) goto out; -- 2.26.2