[PATCH 4.9 16/41] sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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

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From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2146,6 +2146,8 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(bool *
 	if (write) {
 		if (*negp)
 			return -EINVAL;
+		if (*lvalp > UINT_MAX)
+			return -EINVAL;
 		*valp = *lvalp;
 	} else {
 		unsigned int val = *valp;