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sysctl: handle overflow for file-max
authorChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Fri, 8 Mar 2019 00:29:43 +0000 (16:29 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Mar 2019 02:32:02 +0000 (18:32 -0800)
commit8090042818f5783e69cbb139e9308d0662e3ceae
tree7d6434cbbae1e8036702c03e7bc8d4dc2103222a
parentec8406c7236db368bec7005e103389b52da95298
sysctl: handle overflow for file-max

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 <christian@brauner.io>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
[christian@brauner.io: v4]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190210203943.8227-3-christian@brauner.io
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/sysctl.c