[PATCH 3.19 034/177] mm, hugetlb: remove unnecessary lower bound on sysctl handlers"?

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3cd7645de624939c38f5124b4ac15f8b35a1a8b7 upstream.

Commit ed4d4902ebdd ("mm, hugetlb: remove hugetlb_zero and
hugetlb_infinity") replaced 'unsigned long hugetlb_zero' with 'int zero'
leading to out-of-bounds access in proc_doulongvec_minmax().  Use
'.extra1 = NULL' instead of '.extra1 = &zero'.  Passing NULL is
equivalent to passing minimal value, which is 0 for unsigned types.

Fixes: ed4d4902ebdd ("mm, hugetlb: remove hugetlb_zero and hugetlb_infinity")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 kernel/sysctl.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1248,7 +1248,6 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned long),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= hugetlb_sysctl_handler,
-		.extra1		= &zero,
 	},
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	{
@@ -1257,7 +1256,6 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned long),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = &hugetlb_mempolicy_sysctl_handler,
-		.extra1		= &zero,
 	},
 #endif
 	 {
@@ -1280,7 +1278,6 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned long),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= hugetlb_overcommit_handler,
-		.extra1		= &zero,
 	},
 #endif
 	{


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