linux-kernel - [34-longterm 107/209] sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:42:17 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: [34-longterm 107/209] sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

  =====================================================================
  | This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. |
  | If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.|
  =====================================================================

commit 27b3d80a7b6adcf069b5e869e4efcc3a79f88a91 upstream.

When proc_doulongvec_minmax() is used with an array of longs, and no
min/max check requested (.extra1 or .extra2 being NULL), we dereference a
NULL pointer for the second element of the array.

Noticed while doing some changes in network stack for the "16TB problem"

Fix is to not change min & max pointers in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(),
so that all elements of the vector share an unique min/max limit, like
proc_dointvec_minmax().

[akpm@...ux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
---
 kernel/sysctl.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 8686b0f..d2ceded 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2314,7 +2314,7 @@ static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table *table, int
 	vleft = table->maxlen / sizeof(unsigned long);
 	left = *lenp;
 	
-	for (; left && vleft--; i++, min++, max++, first=0) {
+	for (; left && vleft--; i++, first = 0) {
 		if (write) {
 			while (left) {
 				char c;
-- 
1.7.4.4

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