sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec
authorLiping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Apr 2017 15:51:07 +0000 (23:51 +0800)
committerRaspbian kernel package updater <root@raspbian.org>
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 03:08:02 +0000 (03:08 +0000)
commit73208971e5e9a11d4de14363a3f50bf2b45ab727
tree9666ae03ad41a20c41031985ec6c097cad5d83e5
parent82c2037ba910bd22a87e0b3b0db8aa25216ce345
sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec

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@gmail.com>
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/sysctl.c