Re: [PATCH v2] kernel: sysctl: ignore out-of-range taint bits introduced via kernel.tainted

[Rafael Aquini]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:39:53AM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 06:39:46PM -0400, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> > Users with SYS_ADMIN capability can add arbitrary taint flags
> > to the running kernel by writing to /proc/sys/kernel/tainted
> > or issuing the command 'sysctl -w kernel.tainted=...'.

I just notice 2 minor 'screw ups' on my part in the commit log:

> > These interface, however, are open for any integer value
This one probably needs to be reprhased as:
 "The interface, however, is ... "


> > and this might an invalid set of flags being committed to
and I'm missing a verb here, as it should read:
 "and this might cause an invalid ... "


I hope these are easy fixes, in the pre-merge step. (Sorry!)

> > the tainted_mask bitset.
> > 
> > This patch introduces a simple way for proc_taint() to ignore
> > any eventual invalid bit coming from the user input before
> > committing those bits to the kernel tainted_mask.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Thanks!
-- Rafael