The patch titled
sysctl: check for bogus modes
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
sysctl-check-for-bogus-modes.patch
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Subject: sysctl: check for bogus modes
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Catch, e. g., 644/0644 typo.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sysctl_check.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN kernel/sysctl_check.c~sysctl-check-for-bogus-modes kernel/sysctl_check.c
--- a/kernel/sysctl_check.c~sysctl-check-for-bogus-modes
+++ a/kernel/sysctl_check.c
@@ -1532,6 +1532,8 @@ int sysctl_check_table(struct nsproxy *n
sysctl_check_leaf(namespaces, table, &fail);
}
sysctl_check_bin_path(table, &fail);
+ if (table->mode > 0777)
+ set_fail(&fail, table, "bogus .mode");
if (fail) {
set_fail(&fail, table, NULL);
error = -EINVAL;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
sysctl-check-for-bogus-modes.patch
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