linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: llc: use correct size for sysctl timeout entries

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Message-Id: <1422064020-22080-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:47:00 -0500
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL])
Subject: [PATCH] net: llc: use correct size for sysctl timeout entries

The timeout entries are sizeof(int) rather than sizeof(long), which
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>
---
 net/llc/sysctl_net_llc.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/llc/sysctl_net_llc.c b/net/llc/sysctl_net_llc.c
index 612a5dd..799bafc 100644
--- a/net/llc/sysctl_net_llc.c
+++ b/net/llc/sysctl_net_llc.c
@@ -18,28 +18,28 @@ static struct ctl_table llc2_timeout_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "ack",
 		.data		= &sysctl_llc2_ack_timeout,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(long),
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_llc2_ack_timeout),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_jiffies,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "busy",
 		.data		= &sysctl_llc2_busy_timeout,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(long),
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_llc2_busy_timeout),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_jiffies,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "p",
 		.data		= &sysctl_llc2_p_timeout,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(long),
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_llc2_p_timeout),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_jiffies,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "rej",
 		.data		= &sysctl_llc2_rej_timeout,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(long),
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_llc2_rej_timeout),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_jiffies,
 	},
-- 
1.7.10.4

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