The patch titled Subject: proc_sysctl: fix oops caused by incorrect command parameters. has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc_sysctl-fix-oops-caused-by-incorrect-command-parameters.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc_sysctl-fix-oops-caused-by-incorrect-command-parameters.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc_sysctl-fix-oops-caused-by-incorrect-command-parameters.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: proc_sysctl: fix oops caused by incorrect command parameters. The process_sysctl_arg() does not check whether val is empty before invoking strlen(val). If the command line parameter () is incorrectly configured and val is empty, oops is triggered. For example, "hung_task_panic=1" is incorrectly written as "hung_task_panic". log: Kernel command line: .... hung_task_panic .... [000000000000000n] user address but active_mm is swapper Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.10.1 #1 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--) pc : __pi_strlen+0x10/0x98 lr : process_sysctl_arg+0x1e4/0x2ac sp : ffffffc01104bd40 x29: ffffffc01104bd40 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffffff80c0a4691e x26: ffffffc0102a7c8c x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffffffc01104be80 x23: ffffff80c22f0b00 x22: ffffff80c02e28c0 x21: ffffffc0109f9000 x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffffc0107c08de x18: 0000000000000003 x17: ffffffc01105d000 x16: 0000000000000054 x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: 3030253078413830 x13: 000000000000ffff x12: 0000000000000000 x11: 0101010101010101 x10: 0000000000000005 x9 : 0000000000000003 x8 : ffffff80c0980c08 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000002 x5 : ffffff80c0235000 x4 : ffffff810f7c7ee0 x3 : 000000000000043a x2 : 00bdcc4ebacf1a54 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000 Call trace: __pi_strlen+0x10/0x98 parse_args+0x278/0x344 do_sysctl_args+0x8c/0xfc kernel_init+0x5c/0xf4 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30 Code: b200c3eb 927cec01 f2400c07 54000301 (a8c10c22) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210108023339.55917-1-nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 3db978d480e2843 ("kernel/sysctl: support setting sysctl parameters from kernel command line") Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c~proc_sysctl-fix-oops-caused-by-incorrect-command-parameters +++ a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -1757,6 +1757,11 @@ static int process_sysctl_arg(char *para loff_t pos = 0; ssize_t wret; + if (!val) { + pr_err("Missing param value! Expected '%s=...value...'\n", param); + return 0; + } + if (strncmp(param, "sysctl", sizeof("sysctl") - 1) == 0) { param += sizeof("sysctl") - 1; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx are proc_sysctl-fix-oops-caused-by-incorrect-command-parameters.patch