[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 43/47] sysctl.c: fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table

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From: Lin Feng <linf@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 3b3376f222e3ab58367d9dd405cafd09d5e37b7c ]

Apart from subsystem specific .proc_handler handler, all ctl_tables with
extra1 and extra2 members set should use proc_dointvec_minmax instead of
proc_dointvec, or the limit set in extra* never work and potentially echo
underflow values(negative numbers) is likely make system unstable.

Especially vfs_cache_pressure and zone_reclaim_mode, -1 is apparently not
a valid value, but we can set to them.  And then kernel may crash.

# echo -1 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201223105535.2875-1-linf@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sysctl.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index afad085960b8..b9306d2bb426 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2951,7 +2951,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.data		= &block_dump,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(block_dump),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
 	},
 	{
@@ -2959,7 +2959,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.data		= &sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
 	},
 #if defined(HAVE_ARCH_PICK_MMAP_LAYOUT) || \
@@ -2969,7 +2969,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.data		= &sysctl_legacy_va_layout,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_legacy_va_layout),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
 	},
 #endif
@@ -2979,7 +2979,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.data		= &node_reclaim_mode,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(node_reclaim_mode),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
 	},
 	{
-- 
2.30.1




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