From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:45406 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726089AbeIHBLr (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2018 21:11:47 -0400 From: Waiman Long To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Kees Cook , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Matthew Wilcox , "Eric W. Biederman" , Takashi Iwai , Davidlohr Bueso , Waiman Long Subject: [PATCH v9 1/4] ipc: IPCMNI limit check for msgmni and shmmni Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:28:54 -0400 Message-Id: <1536352137-12003-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1536352137-12003-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> References: <1536352137-12003-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: A user can write arbitrary integer values to msgmni and shmmni sysctl parameters without getting error, but the actual limit is really IPCMNI (32k). This can mislead users as they think they can get a value that is not real. The right limits are now set for msgmni and shmmni so that the users will become aware if they set a value outside of the acceptable range. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso --- ipc/ipc_sysctl.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c index 8ad93c2..f87cb29 100644 --- a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c +++ b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static int proc_ipc_auto_msgmni(struct ctl_table *table, int write, static int zero; static int one = 1; static int int_max = INT_MAX; +static int ipc_mni = IPCMNI; static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = { { @@ -120,7 +121,9 @@ static int proc_ipc_auto_msgmni(struct ctl_table *table, int write, .data = &init_ipc_ns.shm_ctlmni, .maxlen = sizeof(init_ipc_ns.shm_ctlmni), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax, + .extra1 = &zero, + .extra2 = &ipc_mni, }, { .procname = "shm_rmid_forced", @@ -147,7 +150,7 @@ static int proc_ipc_auto_msgmni(struct ctl_table *table, int write, .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax, .extra1 = &zero, - .extra2 = &int_max, + .extra2 = &ipc_mni, }, { .procname = "auto_msgmni", -- 1.8.3.1