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Christian Brauner 91ae202e2c sysctl: return -EINVAL if val violates minmax
[ Upstream commit e260ad01f0 ]

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 <christian@brauner.io>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-06-15 11:53:59 +02:00
arch Revert "MIPS: perf: ath79: Fix perfcount IRQ assignment" 2019-06-11 12:20:53 +02:00
block block: sed-opal: fix IOC_OPAL_ENABLE_DISABLE_MBR 2019-05-31 06:46:24 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: ccm - fix incompatibility between "ccm" and "ccm_base" 2019-05-22 07:37:43 +02:00
Documentation doc: Cope with Sphinx logging deprecations 2019-06-09 09:17:21 +02:00
drivers rapidio: fix a NULL pointer dereference when create_workqueue() fails 2019-06-15 11:53:59 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs fs/fat/file.c: issue flush after the writeback of FAT 2019-06-15 11:53:59 +02:00
include ipv4: Define __ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref when CONFIG_INET is disabled 2019-06-11 12:20:57 +02:00
init jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-06-04 08:02:34 +02:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel sysctl: return -EINVAL if val violates minmax 2019-06-15 11:53:59 +02:00
lib test_firmware: Use correct snprintf() limit 2019-06-11 12:20:54 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm memcg: make it work on sparse non-0-node systems 2019-06-09 09:17:19 +02:00
net ethtool: check the return value of get_regs_len 2019-06-11 12:20:57 +02:00
samples samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei 2019-02-15 08:10:11 +01:00
scripts gcc-plugins: Fix build failures under Darwin host 2019-06-09 09:17:22 +02:00
security evm: check hash algorithm passed to init_desc() 2019-06-09 09:17:21 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Improve the headset mic for Acer Aspire laptops 2019-06-09 09:17:17 +02:00
tools jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-06-04 08:02:34 +02:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: s390: Do not report unusabled IDs via KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID 2019-06-09 09:17:18 +02:00
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COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS platform/x86: Add Intel AtomISP2 dummy / power-management driver 2019-04-20 09:16:02 +02:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.50 2019-06-11 12:20:57 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.