Patch "sysctl: enable strict writes" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sysctl: enable strict writes

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     sysctl-enable-strict-writes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 41662f5cc55335807d39404371cfcbb1909304c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:00:45 -0800
Subject: sysctl: enable strict writes

From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

commit 41662f5cc55335807d39404371cfcbb1909304c4 upstream.

SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN was added in commit f4aacea2f5d1 ("sysctl: allow for
strict write position handling"), and released in v3.16 in August of
2014.  Since then I can find only 1 instance of non-zero offset
writing[1], and it was fixed immediately in CRIU[2].  As such, it
appears safe to flip this to the strict state now.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q="when%20file%20position%20was%20not%200"
[2] http://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-April/019819.html

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt |   15 +++++++--------
 kernel/sysctl.c                 |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -775,14 +775,13 @@ via the /proc/sys interface:
        Each write syscall must fully contain the sysctl value to be
        written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor
        will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position.
-   0 - (default) Same behavior as above, but warn about processes that
-       perform writes to a sysctl file descriptor when the file position
-       is not 0.
-   1 - Respect file position when writing sysctl strings. Multiple writes
-       will append to the sysctl value buffer. Anything past the max length
-       of the sysctl value buffer will be ignored. Writes to numeric sysctl
-       entries must always be at file position 0 and the value must be
-       fully contained in the buffer sent in the write syscall.
+   0 - Same behavior as above, but warn about processes that perform writes
+       to a sysctl file descriptor when the file position is not 0.
+   1 - (default) Respect file position when writing sysctl strings. Multiple
+       writes will append to the sysctl value buffer. Anything past the max
+       length of the sysctl value buffer will be ignored. Writes to numeric
+       sysctl entries must always be at file position 0 and the value must
+       be fully contained in the buffer sent in the write syscall.
 
 ==============================================================
 
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ extern int no_unaligned_warning;
 #define SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN	 0
 #define SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT	 1
 
-static int sysctl_writes_strict = SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN;
+static int sysctl_writes_strict = SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT;
 
 static int proc_do_cad_pid(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		  void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@chromium.org are

queue-3.18/sysctl-enable-strict-writes.patch