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authorLin Feng <linf@wangsu.com>2021-02-26 04:20:53 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-02-26 20:41:03 +0300
commit3b3376f222e3ab58367d9dd405cafd09d5e37b7c (patch)
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sysctl.c: fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table
Apart from subsystem specific .proc_handler handler, all ctl_tables with extra1 and extra2 members set should use proc_dointvec_minmax instead of proc_dointvec, or the limit set in extra* never work and potentially echo underflow values(negative numbers) is likely make system unstable. Especially vfs_cache_pressure and zone_reclaim_mode, -1 is apparently not a valid value, but we can set to them. And then kernel may crash. # echo -1 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201223105535.2875-1-linf@wangsu.com Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linf@wangsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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