linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec

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Message-ID: <20101008162226.GA5724@hack>
Date:	Sat, 9 Oct 2010 00:22:26 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: fix min/max handling in
	__do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:38:22PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:59:03 +0200
>> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>
>>> Thats fine by me, thanks Eric.
>>> 
>>> Andrew, please remove previous patch from your tree and replace it by
>>> following one :
>>> 
>>> [PATCH v2] sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()
>>> 
>>> 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().
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>>> ---
>>>  kernel/sysctl.c |    2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
>>> index f88552c..8e45451 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
>>> @@ -2485,7 +2485,7 @@ static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table *table, int
>>>  		kbuf[left] = 0;
>>>  	}
>>>  
>>> -	for (; left && vleft--; i++, min++, max++, first=0) {
>>> +	for (; left && vleft--; i++, first=0) {
>>>  		unsigned long val;
>>>  
>>>  		if (write) {
>>
>> Did we check to see whether any present callers are passing in pointers
>> to arrays of min/max values?
>
>In 2.6.36 there are not any callers that pass in a vector of anything, I
>don't know about linux-next.  It looks to me like incrementing min and
>max was simply a bug.
>

Agreed, I checked them too.

>> I wonder if there's any documentation for this interface which just
>> became wrong.
>
>Or it just became right.  Clearly no one has been expecting min
>and max to be vectors.
>

I think we need to document this before we rewrite the code.

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