sysctl: kdoc'ify sysctl_writes_strict

Document the different sysctl_writes_strict modes in code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-3-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 4dfba1a76cc3..02725178694a 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -174,11 +174,32 @@ extern int no_unaligned_warning;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
 
-#define SYSCTL_WRITES_LEGACY    -1
-#define SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN       0
-#define SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT     1
+/**
+ * enum sysctl_writes_mode - supported sysctl write modes
+ *
+ * @SYSCTL_WRITES_LEGACY: each write syscall must fully contain the sysctl value
+ *      to be written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor
+ *      will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position. No warning
+ *      is issued when the initial position is not 0.
+ * @SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN: same as above but warn when the initial file position is
+ *      not 0.
+ * @SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT: writes to numeric sysctl entries must always be at
+ *      file position 0 and the value must be fully contained in the buffer
+ *      sent to the write syscall. If dealing with strings respect the file
+ *      position, but restrict this to the max length of the buffer, anything
+ *      passed the max lenght will be ignored. Multiple writes will append
+ *      to the buffer.
+ *
+ * These write modes control how current file position affects the behavior of
+ * updating sysctl values through the proc interface on each write.
+ */
+enum sysctl_writes_mode {
+        SYSCTL_WRITES_LEGACY            = -1,
+        SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN              = 0,
+        SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT            = 1,
+};
 
-static int sysctl_writes_strict = SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT;
+static enum sysctl_writes_mode 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);