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author | Michal Hocko <[email protected]> | 2011-01-13 15:47:26 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2011-01-13 17:32:49 -0800 |
commit | 08d4a24659f1284f33e574211435aa12ce968477 (patch) | |
tree | a3bfdee153157acd502452635aa33f842c0f97eb | |
parent | cb9ef8d5e394f70db64bda79c20d3569a20d2574 (diff) |
hugetlb: check the return value of string conversion in sysctl handler
proc_doulongvec_minmax may fail if the given buffer doesn't represent a
valid number. If we provide something invalid we will initialize the
resulting value (nr_overcommit_huge_pages in this case) to a random value
from the stack.
The issue was introduced by a3d0c6aa when the default handler has been
replaced by the helper function where we do not check the return value.
Reproducer:
echo "" > /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages
[[email protected]: correctly propagate proc_doulongvec_minmax return code]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: CAI Qian <[email protected]>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r-- | mm/hugetlb.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 8e31cda6fc22..363c4d22602a 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1859,13 +1859,16 @@ static int hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common(bool obey_mempolicy, { struct hstate *h = &default_hstate; unsigned long tmp; + int ret; if (!write) tmp = h->max_huge_pages; table->data = &tmp; table->maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long); - proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); + ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); + if (ret) + goto out; if (write) { NODEMASK_ALLOC(nodemask_t, nodes_allowed, @@ -1880,8 +1883,8 @@ static int hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common(bool obey_mempolicy, if (nodes_allowed != &node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY]) NODEMASK_FREE(nodes_allowed); } - - return 0; +out: + return ret; } int hugetlb_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, @@ -1919,21 +1922,24 @@ int hugetlb_overcommit_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, { struct hstate *h = &default_hstate; unsigned long tmp; + int ret; if (!write) tmp = h->nr_overcommit_huge_pages; table->data = &tmp; table->maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long); - proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); + ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); + if (ret) + goto out; if (write) { spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock); h->nr_overcommit_huge_pages = tmp; spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock); } - - return 0; +out: + return ret; } #endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */ |