[PATCH] sysctl: add proper unsigned int support

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Sun Jan 29 2017 - 15:25:04 EST


Commit e7d316a02f6838 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
added proc_douintvec() to start help adding support for unsigned int,
this however was only half the work needed, all these issues are present
with the current implementation:

o Printing the values shows a negative value, this happens
since do_proc_dointvec() and this uses proc_put_long()
o We can easily wrap around the int values: UINT_MAX is
4294967295, if we echo in 4294967295 + 1 we end up with 0,
using 4294967295 + 2 we end up with 1.
o We echo negative values in and they are accepted

Fix all these issues by adding our own do_proc_douintvec().

Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

I split this off as its own atomic fix from a larger RFC series [0].
I've only provided the fix here, and split off further functionality
into a separate patch for the future. Although this is a fix I don't think
its super critical, and specially due to its size do not think it can
be stable material.

I do have proc_douintvec_minmax() but since we have no users for it
it can wait until I add something that makes use of it. If someone
needs it now though please let me know.

Likewise adding proc_douintvec_minmax_sysadmin() is very trivial but I have no
immediate users for it so it can wait even longer.

[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161208184801.1689-1-mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx

kernel/sysctl.c | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 115 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 8dbaec0e4f7f..118341d3a139 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2125,12 +2125,12 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
return 0;
}

-static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
- int *valp,
- int write, void *data)
+static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(unsigned long *lvalp,
+ unsigned int *valp,
+ int write, void *data)
{
if (write) {
- if (*negp)
+ if (*lvalp > (unsigned long) UINT_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
*valp = *lvalp;
} else {
@@ -2243,6 +2243,115 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
buffer, lenp, ppos, conv, data);
}

+static int __do_proc_douintvec(void *tbl_data, struct ctl_table *table,
+ int write, void __user *buffer,
+ size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos,
+ int (*conv)(unsigned long *lvalp,
+ unsigned int *valp,
+ int write, void *data),
+ void *data)
+{
+ unsigned int *i, vleft;
+ bool first = true;
+ int err = 0;
+ size_t left;
+ char *kbuf = NULL, *p;
+
+ if (!tbl_data || !table->maxlen || !*lenp || (*ppos && !write)) {
+ *lenp = 0;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ i = (unsigned int *) tbl_data;
+ vleft = table->maxlen / sizeof(*i);
+ left = *lenp;
+
+ if (!conv)
+ conv = do_proc_douintvec_conv;
+
+ if (write) {
+ if (*ppos) {
+ switch (sysctl_writes_strict) {
+ case SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT:
+ goto out;
+ case SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN:
+ warn_sysctl_write(table);
+ break;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (left > PAGE_SIZE - 1)
+ left = PAGE_SIZE - 1;
+ p = kbuf = memdup_user_nul(buffer, left);
+ if (IS_ERR(kbuf))
+ return PTR_ERR(kbuf);
+ }
+
+ for (; left && vleft--; i++, first=false) {
+ unsigned long lval;
+ bool neg;
+
+ if (write) {
+ left -= proc_skip_spaces(&p);
+
+ if (!left)
+ break;
+ err = proc_get_long(&p, &left, &lval, &neg,
+ proc_wspace_sep,
+ sizeof(proc_wspace_sep), NULL);
+ if (neg) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (err)
+ break;
+ if (conv(&lval, i, 1, data)) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }
+ } else {
+ if (conv(&lval, i, 0, data)) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (!first)
+ err = proc_put_char(&buffer, &left, '\t');
+ if (err)
+ break;
+ err = proc_put_long(&buffer, &left, lval, false);
+ if (err)
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (!write && !first && left && !err)
+ err = proc_put_char(&buffer, &left, '\n');
+ if (write && !err && left)
+ left -= proc_skip_spaces(&p);
+ if (write) {
+ kfree(kbuf);
+ if (first)
+ return err ? : -EINVAL;
+ }
+ *lenp -= left;
+out:
+ *ppos += *lenp;
+ return err;
+}
+
+static int do_proc_douintvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos,
+ int (*conv)(unsigned long *lvalp,
+ unsigned int *valp,
+ int write, void *data),
+ void *data)
+{
+ return __do_proc_douintvec(table->data, table, write,
+ buffer, lenp, ppos, conv, data);
+}
+
/**
* proc_dointvec - read a vector of integers
* @table: the sysctl table
@@ -2278,8 +2387,8 @@ int proc_dointvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
int proc_douintvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
- return do_proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos,
- do_proc_douintvec_conv, NULL);
+ return do_proc_douintvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos,
+ do_proc_douintvec_conv, NULL);
}

/*
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