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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-05-10 10:08:32 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-05-16 17:22:52 -0400
commiteceea0b3df05ed262ae32e0c6340cc7a3626632d (patch)
tree73e5e33acace9187d5729a9a8c8ff53c3d720d52 /kernel/sysctl.c
parentadbecb128cd2cc5d14b0ebef6d020ced0efd0ec6 (diff)
[PATCH] avoid multiplication overflows and signedness issues for max_fds
Limit sysctl_nr_open - we don't want ->max_fds to exceed MAX_INT and we don't want size calculation for ->fd[] to overflow. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index d7ffdc59816a..29116652dca8 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ extern int compat_log;
81extern int maps_protect; 81extern int maps_protect;
82extern int sysctl_stat_interval; 82extern int sysctl_stat_interval;
83extern int latencytop_enabled; 83extern int latencytop_enabled;
84extern int sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max;
84 85
85/* Constants used for minimum and maximum */ 86/* Constants used for minimum and maximum */
86#if defined(CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP) || defined(CONFIG_HIGHMEM) 87#if defined(CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP) || defined(CONFIG_HIGHMEM)
@@ -1190,7 +1191,9 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
1190 .data = &sysctl_nr_open, 1191 .data = &sysctl_nr_open,
1191 .maxlen = sizeof(int), 1192 .maxlen = sizeof(int),
1192 .mode = 0644, 1193 .mode = 0644,
1193 .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, 1194 .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_minmax,
1195 .extra1 = &sysctl_nr_open_min,
1196 .extra2 = &sysctl_nr_open_max,
1194 }, 1197 },
1195 { 1198 {
1196 .ctl_name = FS_DENTRY, 1199 .ctl_name = FS_DENTRY,