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<title>sysctl: handle overflow in proc_get_long</title>
<updated>2021-02-07T13:48:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian@brauner.io</email>
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<published>2019-03-08T00:29:40Z</published>
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commit 7f2923c4f73f21cfd714d12a2d48de8c21f11cfe upstream.

proc_get_long() is a funny function.  It uses simple_strtoul() and for a
good reason.  proc_get_long() wants to always succeed the parse and
return the maybe incorrect value and the trailing characters to check
against a pre-defined list of acceptable trailing values.  However,
simple_strtoul() explicitly ignores overflows which can cause funny
things like the following to happen:

  echo 18446744073709551616 &gt; /proc/sys/fs/file-max
  cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
  0

(Which will cause your system to silently die behind your back.)

On the other hand kstrtoul() does do overflow detection but does not
return the trailing characters, and also fails the parse when anything
other than '\n' is a trailing character whereas proc_get_long() wants to
be more lenient.

Now, before adding another kstrtoul() function let's simply add a static
parse strtoul_lenient() which:
 - fails on overflow with -ERANGE
 - returns the trailing characters to the caller

The reason why we should fail on ERANGE is that we already do a partial
fail on overflow right now.  Namely, when the TMPBUFLEN is exceeded.  So
we already reject values such as 184467440737095516160 (21 chars) but
accept values such as 18446744073709551616 (20 chars) but both are
overflows.  So we should just always reject 64bit overflows and not
special-case this based on the number of chars.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190107222700.15954-2-christian@brauner.io
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Joerg Vehlow &lt;lkml@jv-coder.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel: sysctl: make drop_caches write-only</title>
<updated>2020-01-04T18:13:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-01T01:56:08Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 204cb79ad42f015312a5bbd7012d09c93d9b46fb ]

Currently, the drop_caches proc file and sysctl read back the last value
written, suggesting this is somehow a stateful setting instead of a
one-time command.  Make it write-only, like e.g.  compact_memory.

While mitigating a VM problem at scale in our fleet, there was confusion
about whether writing to this file will permanently switch the kernel into
a non-caching mode.  This influences the decision making in a tense
situation, where tens of people are trying to fix tens of thousands of
affected machines: Do we need a rollback strategy?  What are the
performance implications of operating in a non-caching state for several
days?  It also caused confusion when the kernel team said we may need to
write the file several times to make sure it's effective ("But it already
reads back 3?").

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191031221602.9375-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>sysctl: return -EINVAL if val violates minmax</title>
<updated>2019-06-15T09:53:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian@brauner.io</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-14T22:44:55Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit e260ad01f0aa9e96b5386d5cd7184afd949dc457 ]

Currently when userspace gives us a values that overflow e.g.  file-max
and other callers of __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() we simply ignore the
new value and leave the current value untouched.

This can be problematic as it gives the illusion that the limit has
indeed be bumped when in fact it failed.  This commit makes sure to
return EINVAL when an overflow is detected.  Please note that this is a
userspace facing change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190210203943.8227-4-christian@brauner.io
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel/sysctl.c: fix out-of-bounds access when setting file-max</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T07:36:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-06T01:39:38Z</published>
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commit 9002b21465fa4d829edfc94a5a441005cffaa972 upstream.

Commit 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max") hooked up
min/max values for the file-max sysctl parameter via the .extra1 and
.extra2 fields in the corresponding struct ctl_table entry.

Unfortunately, the minimum value points at the global 'zero' variable,
which is an int.  This results in a KASAN splat when accessed as a long
by proc_doulongvec_minmax on 64-bit architectures:

  | BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x5d8/0x6a0
  | Read of size 8 at addr ffff2000133d1c20 by task systemd/1
  |
  | CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.1.0-rc3-00012-g40b114779944 #2
  | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  | Call trace:
  |  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x228
  |  show_stack+0x14/0x20
  |  dump_stack+0xe8/0x124
  |  print_address_description+0x60/0x258
  |  kasan_report+0x140/0x1a0
  |  __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x18/0x20
  |  __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x5d8/0x6a0
  |  proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x4c/0x78
  |  proc_sys_call_handler.isra.19+0x144/0x1d8
  |  proc_sys_write+0x34/0x58
  |  __vfs_write+0x54/0xe8
  |  vfs_write+0x124/0x3c0
  |  ksys_write+0xbc/0x168
  |  __arm64_sys_write+0x68/0x98
  |  el0_svc_common+0x100/0x258
  |  el0_svc_handler+0x48/0xc0
  |  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
  |
  | The buggy address belongs to the variable:
  |  zero+0x0/0x40
  |
  | Memory state around the buggy address:
  |  ffff2000133d1b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa
  |  ffff2000133d1b80: fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa
  | &gt;ffff2000133d1c00: fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00
  |                                ^
  |  ffff2000133d1c80: fa fa fa fa 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00
  |  ffff2000133d1d00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Fix the splat by introducing a unsigned long 'zero_ul' and using that
instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403153409.17307-1-will.deacon@arm.com
Fixes: 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max")
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sysctl: handle overflow for file-max</title>
<updated>2019-04-05T20:32:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian@brauner.io</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-08T00:29:43Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 32a5ad9c22852e6bd9e74bdec5934ef9d1480bc5 ]

Currently, when writing

  echo 18446744073709551616 &gt; /proc/sys/fs/file-max

/proc/sys/fs/file-max will overflow and be set to 0.  That quickly
crashes the system.

This commit sets the max and min value for file-max.  The max value is
set to long int.  Any higher value cannot currently be used as the
percpu counters are long ints and not unsigned integers.

Note that the file-max value is ultimately parsed via
__do_proc_doulongvec_minmax().  This function does not report error when
min or max are exceeded.  Which means if a value largen that long int is
written userspace will not receive an error instead the old value will be
kept.  There is an argument to be made that this should be changed and
__do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() should return an error when a dedicated min
or max value are exceeded.  However this has the potential to break
userspace so let's defer this to an RFC patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190107222700.15954-3-christian@brauner.io
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
[christian@brauner.io: v4]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190210203943.8227-3-christian@brauner.io
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel/sysctl.c: add missing range check in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T19:10:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Zev Weiss</name>
<email>zev@bewilderbeest.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-12T06:28:02Z</published>
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commit 8cf7630b29701d364f8df4a50e4f1f5e752b2778 upstream.

This bug has apparently existed since the introduction of this function
in the pre-git era (4500e91754d3 in Thomas Gleixner's history.git,
"[NET]: Add proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies, use it for proper handling of
neighbour sysctls.").

As a minimal fix we can simply duplicate the corresponding check in
do_proc_dointvec_conv().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190207123426.9202-3-zev@bewilderbeest.net
Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss &lt;zev@bewilderbeest.net&gt;
Cc: Brendan Higgins &lt;brendanhiggins@google.com&gt;
Cc: Iurii Zaikin &lt;yzaikin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[2.6.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>proc/sysctl: fix return error for proc_doulongvec_minmax()</title>
<updated>2019-02-12T18:47:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Cheng Lin</name>
<email>cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T23:26:13Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 09be178400829dddc1189b50a7888495dd26aa84 ]

If the number of input parameters is less than the total parameters, an
EINVAL error will be returned.

For example, we use proc_doulongvec_minmax to pass up to two parameters
with kern_table:

{
	.procname       = "monitor_signals",
	.data           = &amp;monitor_sigs,
	.maxlen         = 2*sizeof(unsigned long),
	.mode           = 0644,
	.proc_handler   = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
},

Reproduce:

When passing two parameters, it's work normal.  But passing only one
parameter, an error "Invalid argument"(EINVAL) is returned.

  [root@cl150 ~]# echo 1 2 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/monitor_signals
  [root@cl150 ~]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/monitor_signals
  1       2
  [root@cl150 ~]# echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/monitor_signals
  -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  [root@cl150 ~]# echo $?
  1
  [root@cl150 ~]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/monitor_signals
  3       2
  [root@cl150 ~]#

The following is the result after apply this patch.  No error is
returned when the number of input parameters is less than the total
parameters.

  [root@cl150 ~]# echo 1 2 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/monitor_signals
  [root@cl150 ~]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/monitor_signals
  1       2
  [root@cl150 ~]# echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/monitor_signals
  [root@cl150 ~]# echo $?
  0
  [root@cl150 ~]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/monitor_signals
  3       2
  [root@cl150 ~]#

There are three processing functions dealing with digital parameters,
__do_proc_dointvec/__do_proc_douintvec/__do_proc_doulongvec_minmax.

This patch deals with __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax, just as
__do_proc_dointvec does, adding a check for parameters 'left'.  In
__do_proc_douintvec, its code implementation explicitly does not support
multiple inputs.

static int __do_proc_douintvec(...){
         ...
         /*
          * Arrays are not supported, keep this simple. *Do not* add
          * support for them.
          */
         if (vleft != 1) {
                 *lenp = 0;
                 return -EINVAL;
         }
         ...
}

So, just __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax has the problem.  And most use of
proc_doulongvec_minmax/proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax just have one
parameter.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1544081775-15720-1-git-send-email-cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Cheng Lin &lt;cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files</title>
<updated>2018-08-24T01:48:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Salvatore Mesoraca</name>
<email>s.mesoraca16@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-24T00:00:35Z</published>
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Disallows open of FIFOs or regular files not owned by the user in world
writable sticky directories, unless the owner is the same as that of the
directory or the file is opened without the O_CREAT flag.  The purpose
is to make data spoofing attacks harder.  This protection can be turned
on and off separately for FIFOs and regular files via sysctl, just like
the symlinks/hardlinks protection.  This patch is based on Openwall's
"HARDEN_FIFO" feature by Solar Designer.

This is a brief list of old vulnerabilities that could have been prevented
by this feature, some of them even allow for privilege escalation:

CVE-2000-1134
CVE-2007-3852
CVE-2008-0525
CVE-2009-0416
CVE-2011-4834
CVE-2015-1838
CVE-2015-7442
CVE-2016-7489

This list is not meant to be complete.  It's difficult to track down all
vulnerabilities of this kind because they were often reported without any
mention of this particular attack vector.  In fact, before
hardlinks/symlinks restrictions, fifos/regular files weren't the favorite
vehicle to exploit them.

[s.mesoraca16@gmail.com: fix bug reported by Dan Carpenter]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180426081456.GA7060@mwanda
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524829819-11275-1-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@gmail.com
[keescook@chromium.org: drop pr_warn_ratelimited() in favor of audit changes in the future]
[keescook@chromium.org: adjust commit subjet]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416175918.GA13494@beast
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca &lt;s.mesoraca16@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Solar Designer &lt;solar@openwall.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/sysctl.c: fix typos in comments</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T05:01:06Z</published>
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Fix a few typos/spellos in kernel/sysctl.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bb09a8b9-f984-6dd4-b07b-3ecaf200862e@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/hung_task.c: allow to set checking interval separately from timeout</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Vyukov</name>
<email>dvyukov@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:55:52Z</published>
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Currently task hung checking interval is equal to timeout, as the result
hung is detected anywhere between timeout and 2*timeout.  This is fine for
most interactive environments, but this hurts automated testing setups
(syzbot).  In an automated setup we need to strictly order CPU lockup &lt;
RCU stall &lt; workqueue lockup &lt; task hung &lt; silent loss, so that RCU stall
is not detected as task hung and task hung is not detected as silent
machine loss.  The large variance in task hung detection timeout requires
setting silent machine loss timeout to a very large value (e.g.  if task
hung is 3 mins, then silent loss need to be set to ~7 mins).  The
additional 3 minutes significantly reduce testing efficiency because
usually we crash kernel within a minute, and this can add hours to bug
localization process as it needs to do dozens of tests.

Allow setting checking interval separately from timeout.  This allows to
set timeout to, say, 3 minutes, but checking interval to 10 secs.

The interval is controlled via a new hung_task_check_interval_secs sysctl,
similar to the existing hung_task_timeout_secs sysctl.  The default value
of 0 results in the current behavior: checking interval is equal to
timeout.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update hung_task_timeout_max's comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180611111004.203513-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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