From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933135AbdGJROs (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:14:48 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:47630 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933105AbdGJROm (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:14:42 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Liping Zhang , Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 4.9 15/41] sysctl: dont print negative flag for proc_douintvec Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:10:48 +0200 Message-Id: <20170710171052.493627549@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.13.2 In-Reply-To: <20170710171051.866846041@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170710171051.866846041@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Liping Zhang commit 5380e5644afbba9e3d229c36771134976f05c91e upstream. I saw some very confusing sysctl output on my system: # cat /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_rseqth -2 # cat /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_etime -10 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat -4294967295 Because we forget to set the *negp flag in proc_douintvec, so it will become a garbage value. Since the value related to proc_douintvec is always an unsigned integer, so we can set *negp to false explictily to fix this issue. Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sysctl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2149,6 +2149,7 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(bool * *valp = *lvalp; } else { unsigned int val = *valp; + *negp = false; *lvalp = (unsigned long)val; } return 0;