Function panic() in kernel/panic.c will use panic_timeout multiplying 1000 as a loop boundery. So this multiplication can overflow when panic_timeout is greater than (INT_MAX/1000). And this results in a zero-delay panic, instead of a huge timeout as the user intends. Fix this by adding bound check to make it no bigger than (INT_MAX/1000). Signed-off-by: Changming Liu <charley.ashbringer@xxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sysctl.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index db1ce7a..e60cf04 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ static int minolduid; static int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX; static const int cap_last_cap = CAP_LAST_CAP; +/* this is needed for setting boundery for panic_timeout to prevent it from overflow*/ +static int panic_time_max = INT_MAX / 1000; + /* * This is needed for proc_doulongvec_minmax of sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs * and hung_task_check_interval_secs @@ -1857,7 +1860,8 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .data = &panic_timeout, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, + .extra2 = &panic_time_max, }, #ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP { -- 2.7.4