[PATCH 3/3] sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec

From: Liping Zhang
Date: Fri Apr 07 2017 - 11:53:04 EST


From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sysctl.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 8cca4c7..e8d1ed0 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2133,6 +2133,8 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
if (write) {
if (*negp)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (*lvalp > (unsigned long) UINT_MAX)
+ return -EINVAL;
*valp = *lvalp;
} else {
unsigned int val = *valp;
--
2.5.5