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=-16.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham 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 C1F3FC433F5 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:08:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9215860F6F for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:08:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238890AbhIWCJe (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:09:34 -0400 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.187]:9759 "EHLO szxga01-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238820AbhIWCJc (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:09:32 -0400 Received: from dggemv704-chm.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.56]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4HFJSV1LSLzVflN; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:06:50 +0800 (CST) Received: from dggpemm500006.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.236) by dggemv704-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.47) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2308.8; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:08:01 +0800 Received: from mdc.huawei.com (10.175.112.208) by dggpemm500006.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.236) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2308.8; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:08:00 +0800 From: Chen Jun To: , CC: , , , Subject: [PATCH v3 1/1] mm: Fix the uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:05:24 +0000 Message-ID: <20210923020524.13289-1-chenjun102@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Originating-IP: [10.175.112.208] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems706-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.183) To dggpemm500006.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.236) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Feng Tang --- 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