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author | Lin Feng <linf@wangsu.com> | 2021-02-26 04:20:53 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-02-26 20:41:03 +0300 |
commit | 3b3376f222e3ab58367d9dd405cafd09d5e37b7c (patch) | |
tree | dbe1cb937b2b318e6460f484fcb203a8344f9426 /CREDITS | |
parent | 4508943794efdd94171549c0bd52810e2f4ad9fe (diff) | |
download | linux-3b3376f222e3ab58367d9dd405cafd09d5e37b7c.tar.xz |
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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