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mm: prevent setting of a value less than 0 to min_free_kbytes

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If echo -1 > /proc/vm/sys/min_free_kbytes, the system will hang.  Changing
proc_dointvec() to proc_dointvec_minmax() in the
min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler() can prevent this to happen.

mhocko said:

: You can still do echo $BIG_VALUE > /proc/vm/sys/min_free_kbytes and make
: your machine unusable but I agree that proc_dointvec_minmax is more
: suitable here as we already have:
:
: 	.proc_handler   = min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler,
: 	.extra1         = &zero,
:
: It used to work properly but then 6fce56ec91b5 ("sysctl: Remove references
: to ctl_name and strategy from the generic sysctl table") has removed
: sysctl_intvec strategy and so extra1 is ignored.

Signed-off-by: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Han Pingtian 2014-01-23 15:53:17 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent cc81717ed3
commit da8c757b08
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -5754,7 +5754,12 @@ module_init(init_per_zone_wmark_min)
int min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
int rc;
rc = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
if (rc)
return rc;
if (write) {
user_min_free_kbytes = min_free_kbytes;
setup_per_zone_wmarks();