From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B036C4360F for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D348217F5 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:40:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1553712008; bh=CwJP2eLuk+apzsegnVV348udYkGg6KG2Q4tYijPHw6o=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=zq+u/Bv/aUL7FPAvpmwPmlIj49qfgygIwcEQfHCBnKuGDcKtgXulAgnJAGPMgKJOv KU6l8lALec1zEFgFwI2YnxSbSNQHRtpjEdKQzCZb5WQsGeTcNULKJywEm10QoCsN3B q4mDoI0qJkuWsphwIpyT8YMKPaKc8BOmPSx4sgeA= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2391045AbfC0SW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:22:59 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:38604 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2390493AbfC0SUy (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:20:54 -0400 Received: from sasha-vm.mshome.net (c-73-47-72-35.hsd1.nh.comcast.net [73.47.72.35]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C2352087C; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:20:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1553710853; bh=CwJP2eLuk+apzsegnVV348udYkGg6KG2Q4tYijPHw6o=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=pZ/FM8vluJYNK4fKFTSHaruJolgi/R4fXkNPsmsI9CqQAeW4jjsVu/z6H6VblIvG4 5i7XB3AMYNqsty1qKVXiebUUdLgiVY9W89BnZtLpUx1lepWh1W4CSUndEGepqlB7tP XDv6g3dfL+/a1jB4gPlCuXQFlqWhdlb1MpQwPjjo= From: Sasha Levin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christian Brauner , Alexey Dobriyan , Al Viro , Dominik Brodowski , "Eric W. Biederman" , Joe Lawrence , Luis Chamberlain , Waiman Long , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Sasha Levin , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 07/87] sysctl: handle overflow for file-max Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:19:20 -0400 Message-Id: <20190327182040.17444-7-sashal@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.19.1 In-Reply-To: <20190327182040.17444-1-sashal@kernel.org> References: <20190327182040.17444-1-sashal@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Patchwork-Hint: Ignore Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christian Brauner [ Upstream commit 32a5ad9c22852e6bd9e74bdec5934ef9d1480bc5 ] Currently, when writing echo 18446744073709551616 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max /proc/sys/fs/file-max will overflow and be set to 0. That quickly crashes the system. This commit sets the max and min value for file-max. The max value is set to long int. Any higher value cannot currently be used as the percpu counters are long ints and not unsigned integers. Note that the file-max value is ultimately parsed via __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(). This function does not report error when min or max are exceeded. Which means if a value largen that long int is written userspace will not receive an error instead the old value will be kept. There is an argument to be made that this should be changed and __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() should return an error when a dedicated min or max value are exceeded. However this has the potential to break userspace so let's defer this to an RFC patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190107222700.15954-3-christian@brauner.io Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Joe Lawrence Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Waiman Long [christian@brauner.io: v4] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190210203943.8227-3-christian@brauner.io Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- kernel/sysctl.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index efd340a510a9..5515d578095b 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ static int __maybe_unused one = 1; static int __maybe_unused two = 2; static int __maybe_unused four = 4; static unsigned long one_ul = 1; +static unsigned long long_max = LONG_MAX; static int one_hundred = 100; static int one_thousand = 1000; #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK @@ -1682,6 +1683,8 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(files_stat.max_files), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax, + .extra1 = &zero, + .extra2 = &long_max, }, { .procname = "nr_open", -- 2.19.1