[PATCHv2 2/2] ipc, msg: forbid negative values for "msg{max,mnb,mni}"

From: Mathias Krause
Date: Sun Nov 03 2013 - 06:37:24 EST


Negative message lengths make no sense -- so don't do negative queue
lenghts or identifier counts. Prevent them from getting negative.

Also change the underlying data types to be unsigned to avoid harry
surprises with sign extensions in cases where those variables get
evaluated in unsigned expressions with bigger data types, e.g size_t.

In case a user still wants to have "unlimited" sizes she could just use
INT_MAX instead.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- handle msgmnb and msgmni, too
- make the underlying variables unsigned, as per Linus

include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 6 +++---
ipc/ipc_sysctl.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
index 19c19a5..f6c82de 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ struct ipc_namespace {
int sem_ctls[4];
int used_sems;

- int msg_ctlmax;
- int msg_ctlmnb;
- int msg_ctlmni;
+ unsigned int msg_ctlmax;
+ unsigned int msg_ctlmnb;
+ unsigned int msg_ctlmni;
atomic_t msg_bytes;
atomic_t msg_hdrs;
int auto_msgmni;
diff --git a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
index 130dfec..b0e99de 100644
--- a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
+++ b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static int proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax_orphans(ctl_table *table, int write,
return err;
}

-static int proc_ipc_callback_dointvec(ctl_table *table, int write,
+static int proc_ipc_callback_dointvec_minmax(ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct ctl_table ipc_table;
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static int proc_ipc_callback_dointvec(ctl_table *table, int write,
memcpy(&ipc_table, table, sizeof(ipc_table));
ipc_table.data = get_ipc(table);

- rc = proc_dointvec(&ipc_table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+ rc = proc_dointvec_minmax(&ipc_table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);

if (write && !rc && lenp_bef == *lenp)
/*
@@ -152,15 +152,13 @@ static int proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax(ctl_table *table, int write,
#define proc_ipc_dointvec NULL
#define proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax NULL
#define proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax_orphans NULL
-#define proc_ipc_callback_dointvec NULL
+#define proc_ipc_callback_dointvec_minmax NULL
#define proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax NULL
#endif

static int zero;
static int one = 1;
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
static int int_max = INT_MAX;
-#endif

static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = {
{
@@ -198,21 +196,27 @@ static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = {
.data = &init_ipc_ns.msg_ctlmax,
.maxlen = sizeof (init_ipc_ns.msg_ctlmax),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
+ .extra2 = &int_max,
},
{
.procname = "msgmni",
.data = &init_ipc_ns.msg_ctlmni,
.maxlen = sizeof (init_ipc_ns.msg_ctlmni),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_ipc_callback_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = proc_ipc_callback_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
+ .extra2 = &int_max,
},
{
.procname = "msgmnb",
.data = &init_ipc_ns.msg_ctlmnb,
.maxlen = sizeof (init_ipc_ns.msg_ctlmnb),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
+ .extra2 = &int_max,
},
{
.procname = "sem",
--
1.7.10.4

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