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| author | Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com> | 2021-09-24 15:44:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-09-30 10:10:58 +0200 |
| commit | 838297222b2b76833d144f6e5229136835856bd1 (patch) | |
| tree | 003b21c2272eb0167e324ed141dc472ea7642bbe /mm | |
| parent | 437be4d6faed97a45fd67519c551a78d30b1c6d1 (diff) | |
mm: fix uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler
commit bcbda81020c3ee77e2c098cadf3e84f99ca3de17 upstream.
We get an unexpected value of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory 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.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923020524.13289-1-chenjun102@huawei.com
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>
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 4 |
1 files 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); |