kernel/linux.git/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, branch v6.6.132

fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries

2025-07-17T16:35:09+00:00

[ Upstream commit b969f9614885c20f903e1d1f9445611daf161d6d ] There's one case where ->d_compare() can be called for an in-lookup dentry; usually that's nothing special from ->d_compare() point of view, but... proc_sys_compare() is weird. The thing is, /proc/sys subdirectories can look differently for different processes. Up to and including having the same name resolve to different dentries - all of them hashed. The way it's done is ->d_compare() refusing to admit a match unless this dentry is supposed to be visible to this caller. The information needed to discriminate between them is stored in inode; it is set during proc_sys_lookup() and until it's done d_splice_alias() we really can't tell who should that dentry be visible for. Normally there's no negative dentries in /proc/sys; we can run into a dying dentry in RCU dcache lookup, but those can be safely rejected. However, ->d_compare() is also called for in-lookup dentries, before they get positive - or hashed, for that matter. In case of match we will wait until dentry leaves in-lookup state and repeat ->d_compare() afterwards. In other words, the right behaviour is to treat the name match as sufficient for in-lookup dentries; if dentry is not for us, we'll see that when we recheck once proc_sys_lookup() is done with it. While we are at it, fix the misspelled READ_ONCE and WRITE_ONCE there. Fixes: d9171b934526 ("parallel lookups machinery, part 4 (and last)") Reported-by: NeilBrown Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid

2024-08-11T10:47:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit 98ca62ba9e2be5863c7d069f84f7166b45a5b2f4 ] Always initialize i_uid/i_gid inside the sysfs core so set_ownership() can safely skip setting them. Commit 5ec27ec735ba ("fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: fix the default values of i_uid/i_gid on /proc/sys inodes.") added defaults for i_uid/i_gid when set_ownership() was not implemented. It also missed adjusting net_ctl_set_ownership() to use the same default values in case the computation of a better value failed. Fixes: 5ec27ec735ba ("fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: fix the default values of i_uid/i_gid on /proc/sys inodes.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)

2024-08-11T10:47:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit 520713a93d550406dae14d49cdb8778d70cecdfd ] Remove the 'table' argument from set_ownership as it is never used. This change is a step towards putting "struct ctl_table" into .rodata and eventually having sysctl core only use "const struct ctl_table". The patch was created with the following coccinelle script: @@ identifier func, head, table, uid, gid; @@ void func( struct ctl_table_header *head, - struct ctl_table *table, kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid) { ... } No additional occurrences of 'set_ownership' were found after doing a tree-wide search. Reviewed-by: Joel Granados Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Stable-dep-of: 98ca62ba9e2b ("sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers

2024-02-05T20:14:17+00:00

[ Upstream commit 315552310c7de92baea4e570967066569937a843 ] When registering tables to the sysctl subsystem there is a check to see if header is a permanently empty directory (used for mounts). This check evaluates the first element of the ctl_table. This results in an out of bounds evaluation when registering empty directories. The function register_sysctl_mount_point now passes a ctl_table of size 1 instead of size 0. It now relies solely on the type to identify a permanently empty register. Make sure that the ctl_table has at least one element before testing for permanent emptiness. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202311201431.57aae8f3-oliver.sang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param

2023-11-28T17:19:57+00:00

commit 8b793bcda61f6c3ed4f5b2ded7530ef6749580cb upstream. Setting softlockup_panic from do_sysctl_args() causes it to take effect later in boot. The lockup detector is enabled before SMP is brought online, but do_sysctl_args runs afterwards. If a user wants to set softlockup_panic on boot and have it trigger should a softlockup occur during onlining of the non-boot processors, they could do this prior to commit f117955a2255 ("kernel/watchdog.c: convert {soft/hard}lockup boot parameters to sysctl aliases"). However, after this commit the value of softlockup_panic is set too late to be of help for this type of problem. Restore the prior behavior. Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: f117955a2255 ("kernel/watchdog.c: convert {soft/hard}lockup boot parameters to sysctl aliases") Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init

2023-11-28T17:19:57+00:00

commit 8001f49394e353f035306a45bcf504f06fca6355 upstream. The code that checks for unknown boot options is unaware of the sysctl alias facility, which maps bootparams to sysctl values. If a user sets an old value that has a valid alias, a message about an invalid parameter will be printed during boot, and the parameter will get passed to init. Fix by checking for the existence of aliased parameters in the unknown boot parameter code. If an alias exists, don't return an error or pass the value to init. Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 0a477e1ae21b ("kernel/sysctl: support handling command line aliases") Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

2023-08-30T00:39:15+00:00

Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain: "Long ago we set out to remove the kitchen sink on kernel/sysctl.c arrays and placings sysctls to their own sybsystem or file to help avoid merge conflicts. Matthew Wilcox pointed out though that if we're going to do that we might as well also *save* space while at it and try to remove the extra last sysctl entry added at the end of each array, a sentintel, instead of bloating the kernel by adding a new sentinel with each array moved. Doing that was not so trivial, and has required slowing down the moves of kernel/sysctl.c arrays and measuring the impact on size by each new move. The complex part of the effort to help reduce the size of each sysctl is being done by the patient work of el señor Don Joel Granados. A lot of this is truly painful code refactoring and testing and then trying to measure the savings of each move and removing the sentinels. Although Joel already has code which does most of this work, experience with sysctl moves in the past shows is we need to be careful due to the slew of odd build failures that are possible due to the amount of random Kconfig options sysctls use. To that end Joel's work is split by first addressing the major housekeeping needed to remove the sentinels, which is part of this merge request. The rest of the work to actually remove the sentinels will be done later in future kernel releases. The preliminary math is showing this will all help reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array where we are able to remove each sentinel in the future. That also means there is no more bloating the kernel with the extra ~64 bytes per array moved as no new sentinels are created" * tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: sysctl: Use ctl_table_size as stopping criteria for list macro sysctl: SIZE_MAX->ARRAY_SIZE in register_net_sysctl vrf: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz netfilter: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz ax.25: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function sysctl: Add size arg to __register_sysctl_init sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table sysctl: Add size argument to init_header sysctl: Add ctl_table_size to ctl_table_header sysctl: Use ctl_table_header in list_for_each_table_entry sysctl: Prefer ctl_table_header in proc_sysctl

sysctl: Use ctl_table_size as stopping criteria for list macro

2023-08-15T22:26:18+00:00

This is a preparation commit to make it easy to remove the sentinel elements (empty end markers) from the ctl_table arrays. It both allows the systematic removal of the sentinels and adds the ctl_table_size variable to the stopping criteria of the list_for_each_table_entry macro that traverses all ctl_table arrays. Once all the sentinels are removed by subsequent commits, ctl_table_size will become the only stopping criteria in the macro. We don't actually remove any elements in this commit, but it sets things up to for the removal process to take place. By adding header->ctl_table_size as an additional stopping criteria for the list_for_each_table_entry macro, it will execute until it finds an "empty" ->procname or until the size runs out. Therefore if a ctl_table array with a sentinel is passed its size will be too big (by one element) but it will stop on the sentinel. On the other hand, if the ctl_table array without a sentinel is passed its size will be just write and there will be no need for a sentinel. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Suggested-by: Jani Nikula Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

sysctl: Add size arg to __register_sysctl_init

2023-08-15T22:26:17+00:00

This commit adds table_size to __register_sysctl_init in preparation for the removal of the sentinel elements in the ctl_table arrays (last empty markers). And though we do *not* remove any sentinels in this commit, we set things up by calculating the ctl_table array size with ARRAY_SIZE. We add a table_size argument to __register_sysctl_init and modify the register_sysctl_init macro to calculate the array size with ARRAY_SIZE. The original callers do not need to be updated as they will go through the new macro. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl

2023-08-15T22:26:17+00:00

This commit adds table_size to register_sysctl in preparation for the removal of the sentinel elements in the ctl_table arrays (last empty markers). And though we do *not* remove any sentinels in this commit, we set things up by either passing the table_size explicitly or using ARRAY_SIZE on the ctl_table arrays. We replace the register_syctl function with a macro that will add the ARRAY_SIZE to the new register_sysctl_sz function. In this way the callers that are already using an array of ctl_table structs do not change. For the callers that pass a ctl_table array pointer, we pass the table_size to register_sysctl_sz instead of the macro. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain