From 41662f5cc55335807d39404371cfcbb1909304c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:00:45 -0800 Subject: sysctl: enable strict writes SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN was added in commit f4aacea2f5d1 ("sysctl: allow for strict write position handling"), and released in v3.16 in August of 2014. Since then I can find only 1 instance of non-zero offset writing[1], and it was fixed immediately in CRIU[2]. As such, it appears safe to flip this to the strict state now. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q="when%20file%20position%20was%20not%200" [2] http://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-April/019819.html Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index c810f8afdb7f..91420362e0b3 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ extern int no_unaligned_warning; #define SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN 0 #define SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT 1 -static int sysctl_writes_strict = SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN; +static int sysctl_writes_strict = SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT; static int proc_do_cad_pid(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); -- cgit v1.2.3