* [PATCH v3 1/1] mm: Fix the uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler
@ 2021-09-23 2:05 Chen Jun
2021-09-24 2:23 ` Andrew Morton
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Chen Jun @ 2021-09-23 2:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel, linux-mm; +Cc: akpm, feng.tang, mhocko, rui.xiang
An unexpected value of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory we will get,
after running the following program.
int main()
{
int fd = open("/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory", O_RDWR)
write(fd, "1", 1);
write(fd, "2", 1);
close(fd);
}
write(fd, "2", 1) will pass *ppos = 1 to proc_dointvec_minmax.
proc_dointvec_minmax will return 0 without setting new_policy.
t.data = &new_policy;
ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(&t, write, buffer, lenp, ppos)
-->do_proc_dointvec
-->__do_proc_dointvec
if (write) {
if (proc_first_pos_non_zero_ignore(ppos, table))
goto out;
sysctl_overcommit_memory = new_policy;
so sysctl_overcommit_memory will be set to an uninitialized value.
Check whether new_policy has been changed by proc_dointvec_minmax.
Fixes: 56f3547bfa4d ("mm: adjust vm_committed_as_batch according to vm overcommit policy"
Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
---
v3:
* Correct commit message.
v2:
* Check whether new_policy has been changed by proc_dointvec_minmax.
mm/util.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 4ddb6e186dd5..d5be67771850 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ int overcommit_policy_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct ctl_table t;
- int new_policy;
+ int new_policy = -1;
int ret;
/*
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ int overcommit_policy_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
t = *table;
t.data = &new_policy;
ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(&t, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret || new_policy == -1)
return ret;
mm_compute_batch(new_policy);
--
2.17.1
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* Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] mm: Fix the uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler
2021-09-23 2:05 [PATCH v3 1/1] mm: Fix the uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler Chen Jun
@ 2021-09-24 2:23 ` Andrew Morton
2021-09-24 2:41 ` Kefeng Wang
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2021-09-24 2:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chen Jun; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-mm, feng.tang, mhocko, rui.xiang
On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:05:24 +0000 Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com> wrote:
> An unexpected value of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory we will get,
> after running the following program.
>
> int main()
> {
> int fd = open("/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory", O_RDWR)
> write(fd, "1", 1);
> write(fd, "2", 1);
> close(fd);
> }
>
> write(fd, "2", 1) will pass *ppos = 1 to proc_dointvec_minmax.
> proc_dointvec_minmax will return 0 without setting new_policy.
>
> t.data = &new_policy;
> ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(&t, write, buffer, lenp, ppos)
> -->do_proc_dointvec
> -->__do_proc_dointvec
> if (write) {
> if (proc_first_pos_non_zero_ignore(ppos, table))
> goto out;
>
> sysctl_overcommit_memory = new_policy;
>
> so sysctl_overcommit_memory will be set to an uninitialized value.
>
> Check whether new_policy has been changed by proc_dointvec_minmax.
>
Thanks. I added a cc:stable to this, so the fix will be backported
into earlier kernels.
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* Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] mm: Fix the uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler
2021-09-24 2:23 ` Andrew Morton
@ 2021-09-24 2:41 ` Kefeng Wang
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kefeng Wang @ 2021-09-24 2:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton, Chen Jun
Cc: linux-kernel, linux-mm, feng.tang, mhocko, rui.xiang
On 2021/9/24 10:23, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:05:24 +0000 Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com> wrote:
>
>> An unexpected value of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory we will get,
>> after running the following program.
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>> int fd = open("/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory", O_RDWR)
Hi Andrew,
missing ';' here,
> Thanks. I added a cc:stable to this, so the fix will be backported
> into earlier kernels.
... and the Fixes tag miss a ')' in the end , please help to add them :)
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
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