From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5004DC433FE for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2021 08:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235122AbhLIIsQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2021 03:48:16 -0500 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.187]:15712 "EHLO szxga01-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231782AbhLIIsP (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2021 03:48:15 -0500 Received: from dggpeml500020.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.56]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4J8nZj21D8zZdZM; Thu, 9 Dec 2021 16:41:49 +0800 (CST) Received: from huawei.com (10.175.127.227) by dggpeml500020.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.88) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2308.20; Thu, 9 Dec 2021 16:44:40 +0800 From: Baokun Li To: , , CC: , , , , Hulk Robot Subject: [PATCH -next] sysctl: returns -EINVAL when a negative value is passed to proc_doulongvec_minmax Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 16:56:35 +0800 Message-ID: <20211209085635.1288737-1-libaokun1@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Originating-IP: [10.175.127.227] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems706-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.183) To dggpeml500020.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.88) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When we pass a negative value to the proc_doulongvec_minmax() function, the function returns 0, but the corresponding interface value does not change. we can easily reproduce this problem with the following commands: `cd /proc/sys/fs/epoll` `echo -1 > max_user_watches; echo $?; cat max_user_watches` This function requires a non-negative number to be passed in, so when a negative number is passed in, -EINVAL is returned. Reported-by: Hulk Robot Signed-off-by: Baokun Li --- kernel/sysctl.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 7f07b058b180..537d2f75faa0 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1149,10 +1149,9 @@ static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table *table, sizeof(proc_wspace_sep), NULL); if (err) break; - if (neg) - continue; + val = convmul * val / convdiv; - if ((min && val < *min) || (max && val > *max)) { + if (neg || (min && val < *min) || (max && val > *max)) { err = -EINVAL; break; } -- 2.31.1