4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 5380e5644afbba9e3d229c36771134976f05c91e upstream.
I saw some very confusing sysctl output on my system:
# cat /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_rseqth
-2
# cat /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_etime
-10
# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
-4294967295
Because we forget to set the *negp flag in proc_douintvec, so it will
become a garbage value.
Since the value related to proc_douintvec is always an unsigned integer,
so we can set *negp to false explictily to fix this issue.
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sysctl.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2070,6 +2070,7 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(bool *
*valp = *lvalp;
} else {
unsigned int val = *valp;
+ *negp = false;
*lvalp = (unsigned long)val;
}
return 0;