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Subject[34-longterm 107/209] sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

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| If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.|
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commit 27b3d80a7b6adcf069b5e869e4efcc3a79f88a91 upstream.

When proc_doulongvec_minmax() is used with an array of longs, and no
min/max check requested (.extra1 or .extra2 being NULL), we dereference a
NULL pointer for the second element of the array.

Noticed while doing some changes in network stack for the "16TB problem"

Fix is to not change min & max pointers in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(),
so that all elements of the vector share an unique min/max limit, like
proc_dointvec_minmax().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 8686b0f..d2ceded 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2314,7 +2314,7 @@ static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table *table, int
vleft = table->maxlen / sizeof(unsigned long);
left = *lenp;

- for (; left && vleft--; i++, min++, max++, first=0) {
+ for (; left && vleft--; i++, first = 0) {
if (write) {
while (left) {
char c;
--
1.7.4.4


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