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sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec
authorLiping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Apr 2017 15:51:07 +0000 (23:51 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 09:57:46 +0000 (11:57 +0200)
commita2148222e3751fe2e02c71533dced8f030e94295
treecd2106a05a6e6bd7ba605d624107bae2ea4f9c8e
parente8505e6432c2eb7296d9c7724146d1ba1966a040
sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec

commit 425fffd886bae3d127a08fa6a17f2e31e24ed7ff upstream.

Currently, inputting the following command will succeed but actually the
value will be truncated:

  # echo 0x12ffffffff > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat

This is not friendly to the user, so instead, we should report error
when the value is larger than UINT_MAX.

Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/sysctl.c