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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19703C433DB for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:15:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05EC224DE for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726932AbhAKDPA (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:15:00 -0500 Received: from szxga04-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.190]:10702 "EHLO szxga04-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725797AbhAKDO7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:14:59 -0500 Received: from DGGEMS405-HUB.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.60]) by szxga04-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4DDf0Z2HLFzkcn5; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:13:02 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.67.102.197] (10.67.102.197) by DGGEMS405-HUB.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.205) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.498.0; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:14:09 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc_sysctl: fix oops caused by incorrect command parameters. To: Andy Shevchenko CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "mcgrof@kernel.org" , "keescook@chromium.org" , "yzaikin@google.com" , "adobriyan@gmail.com" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "vbabka@suse.cz" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "mhocko@suse.com" , "wangle6@huawei.com" References: <20210108023339.55917-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com> From: Xiaoming Ni Message-ID: Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:14:08 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.67.102.197] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2021/1/9 17:10, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > On Friday, January 8, 2021, Xiaoming Ni > wrote: > > The process_sysctl_arg() does not check whether val is empty before >  invoking strlen(val). If the command line parameter () is incorrectly >  configured and val is empty, oops is triggered. > > For example, "hung_task_panic=1" is incorrectly written as > "hung_task_panic". > > log: > > > Can you drop redundant (not significant) lines from the log to avoid > noisy commit message? > ok, Thank you for your advice. I will update it in v3 patch. Thanks Xiaoming Ni.