The patch titled
Subject: proc_sysctl: fix oops caused by incorrect command parameters
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
proc_sysctl-fix-oops-caused-by-incorrect-command-parameters.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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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", oops is
triggered. The call stack is as follows:
Kernel command line: .... hung_task_panic
......
Call trace:
__pi_strlen+0x10/0x98
parse_args+0x278/0x344
do_sysctl_args+0x8c/0xfc
kernel_init+0x5c/0xf4
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30
To fix it, check whether "val" is empty when "phram" is a sysctl field.
Error codes are returned in the failure branch, and error logs are
generated by parse_args().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210118133029.28580-1-nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 3db978d480e2843 ("kernel/sysctl: support setting sysctl parameters from kernel command line")
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [5.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c~proc_sysctl-fix-oops-caused-by-incorrect-command-parameters
+++ a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -1770,6 +1770,12 @@ static int process_sysctl_arg(char *para
return 0;
}
+ if (!val)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ len = strlen(val);
+ if (len == 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/*
* To set sysctl options, we use a temporary mount of proc, look up the
* respective sys/ file and write to it. To avoid mounting it when no
@@ -1811,7 +1817,6 @@ static int process_sysctl_arg(char *para
file, param, val);
goto out;
}
- len = strlen(val);
wret = kernel_write(file, val, len, &pos);
if (wret < 0) {
err = wret;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx are
