From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:57686 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752353AbeENGu6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2018 02:50:58 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Tan Xiaojun , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , acme@kernel.org, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Linus Torvalds , Stephane Eranian , Thomas Gleixner , Vince Weaver , Ingo Molnar , Guenter Roeck Subject: [PATCH 4.4 01/56] perf/core: Fix the perf_cpu_time_max_percent check Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 08:48:06 +0200 Message-Id: <20180514064755.005449700@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180514064754.853201981@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180514064754.853201981@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tan Xiaojun commit 1572e45a924f254d9570093abde46430c3172e3d upstream. Use "proc_dointvec_minmax" instead of "proc_dointvec" to check the input value from user-space. If not, we can set a big value and some vars will overflow like "sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate" which will cause a lot of unexpected problems. Signed-off-by: Tan Xiaojun Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Cc: Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487829879-56237-1-git-send-email-tanxiaojun@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ int perf_cpu_time_max_percent_handler(st void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { - int ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); + int ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (ret || !write) return ret;