linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 178/221] net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and bytes

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Date:	Tue, 05 May 2015 02:16:39 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Sasha Levin" <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 178/221] net: rds: use correct size for max unacked
 packets and bytes

3.2.69-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>

commit db27ebb111e9f69efece08e4cb6a34ff980f8896 upstream.

Max unacked packets/bytes is an int while sizeof(long) was used in the
sysctl table.

This means that when they were getting read we'd also leak kernel memory
to userspace along with the timeout values.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 net/rds/sysctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/sysctl.c b/net/rds/sysctl.c
index c3b0cd4..c173f69 100644
--- a/net/rds/sysctl.c
+++ b/net/rds/sysctl.c
@@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ static struct ctl_table rds_sysctl_rds_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "max_unacked_packets",
 		.data		= &rds_sysctl_max_unacked_packets,
-		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned long),
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "max_unacked_bytes",
 		.data		= &rds_sysctl_max_unacked_bytes,
-		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned long),
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
 	},

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