[PATCH] Fix sysctl unregistration oops (CVE-2005-2709)

You could open the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<if>/<whatever> file, then
wait for interface to go away, try to grab as much memory as possible in
hope to hit the (kfreed) ctl_table.  Then fill it with pointers to your
function.  Then do read from file you've opened and if you are lucky,
you'll get it called as ->proc_handler() in kernel mode.

So this is at least an Oops and possibly more.  It does depend on an
interface going away though, so less of a security risk than it would
otherwise be.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index fc8e367f671e..fc131d6602b9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 
 struct file;
+struct completion;
 
 #define CTL_MAXNAME 10          /* how many path components do we allow in a
                                    call to sysctl?   In other words, what is
@@ -925,6 +926,8 @@ struct ctl_table_header
 {
         ctl_table *ctl_table;
         struct list_head ctl_entry;
+        int used;
+        struct completion *unregistering;
 };
 
 struct ctl_table_header * register_sysctl_table(ctl_table * table,