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authorBaokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>2022-01-22 07:13:48 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-01-22 07:33:37 +0100
commit1622ed7d0743201293094162c26019d2573ecacb (patch)
tree1d80811a251d27416bce444b2db70d791aaa6963 /kernel/sysctl.c
parentkernel/sysctl.c: remove unused variable ten_thousand (diff)
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sysctl: returns -EINVAL when a negative value is passed to proc_doulongvec_minmax
When we pass a negative value to the proc_doulongvec_minmax() function, the function returns 0, but the corresponding interface value does not change. we can easily reproduce this problem with the following commands: cd /proc/sys/fs/epoll echo -1 > max_user_watches; echo $?; cat max_user_watches This function requires a non-negative number to be passed in, so when a negative number is passed in, -EINVAL is returned. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211220092627.3744624-1-libaokun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index e92e8d21d6bf..5ae443b2882e 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1145,10 +1145,11 @@ static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table *table,
err = proc_get_long(&p, &left, &val, &neg,
proc_wspace_sep,
sizeof(proc_wspace_sep), NULL);
- if (err)
+ if (err || neg) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
break;
- if (neg)
- continue;
+ }
+
val = convmul * val / convdiv;
if ((min && val < *min) || (max && val > *max)) {
err = -EINVAL;