This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sysctl-report-einval-if-value-is-larger-than-uint_max-for-proc_douintvec.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 425fffd886bae3d127a08fa6a17f2e31e24ed7ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 23:51:07 +0800 Subject: sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> commit 425fffd886bae3d127a08fa6a17f2e31e24ed7ff upstream. Currently, inputting the following command will succeed but actually the value will be truncated: # echo 0x12ffffffff > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat This is not friendly to the user, so instead, we should report error when the value is larger than UINT_MAX. Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sysctl.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2146,6 +2146,8 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(bool * if (write) { if (*negp) return -EINVAL; + if (*lvalp > UINT_MAX) + return -EINVAL; *valp = *lvalp; } else { unsigned int val = *valp; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/sysctl-don-t-print-negative-flag-for-proc_douintvec.patch queue-4.9/sysctl-report-einval-if-value-is-larger-than-uint_max-for-proc_douintvec.patch