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From: Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] sysctl: fix range-checking in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv()
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 10:23:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190205162351.c2ihwydd6hkum7ub@hatter.bewilderbeest.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181227111231.12912-1-zev@bewilderbeest.net>

Ping...any thoughts on these patches?  (May have slipped through the 
cracks over people's holiday vacations I'd guess.)

Thanks,
Zev

On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 05:12:28AM CST, Zev Weiss wrote:
>Hello,
>
>After being left with an unusable system after a typo executing
>something like 'echo $((1<<24)) > /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count', I found
>that do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv() was missing a check to ensure that
>the converted value actually fits in an int.
>
>The first of the following patches enhances the sysctl selftest such
>that it detects this problem; the second fixes it (wasn't entirely
>sure if this would meet the criteria of something that should be sent
>to -stable; input welcome).
>
>
>Thanks,
>Zev Weiss
>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-05 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-27 11:12 [PATCH 0/2] sysctl: fix range-checking in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv() Zev Weiss
2018-12-27 11:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] test_sysctl: add tests for >32-bit values written to 32-bit integers Zev Weiss
2018-12-27 11:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] kernel/sysctl.c: define minmax conv functions in terms of non-minmax versions Zev Weiss
2019-02-06 19:58   ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-02-07 12:34     ` [PATCH v2 0/3] sysctl: fix range-checking in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv() Zev Weiss
2019-02-07 12:34       ` [PATCH v2 1/3] test_sysctl: add tests for >32-bit values written to 32-bit integers Zev Weiss
2019-02-07 12:34       ` [PATCH v2 2/3] kernel/sysctl.c: add missing range check in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv Zev Weiss
2019-02-07 12:34       ` [PATCH v2 3/3] kernel/sysctl.c: define minmax conv functions in terms of non-minmax versions Zev Weiss
2019-02-07 15:51       ` [PATCH v2 0/3] sysctl: fix range-checking in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv() Luis Chamberlain
2019-02-07 16:54         ` Zev Weiss
2019-02-07 16:51       ` [PATCH v2 3/3] kernel/sysctl.c: define minmax conv functions in terms of non-minmax versions Zev Weiss
2019-02-05 16:23 ` Zev Weiss [this message]

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