Commit b919d326 authored by Lin Feng's avatar Lin Feng Committed by Zheng Zengkai
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sysctl.c: fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table

stable inclusion
from stable-5.10.24
commit f49bdac3e7f4ebe195c1bf60a94164e905c2b1c9
bugzilla: 51348

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[ Upstream commit 3b3376f2 ]

Apart from subsystem specific .proc_handler handler, all ctl_tables with
extra1 and extra2 members set should use proc_dointvec_minmax instead of
proc_dointvec, or the limit set in extra* never work and potentially echo
underflow values(negative numbers) is likely make system unstable.

Especially vfs_cache_pressure and zone_reclaim_mode, -1 is apparently not
a valid value, but we can set to them.  And then kernel may crash.

# echo -1 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201223105535.2875-1-linf@wangsu.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLin Feng <linf@wangsu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatar  Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>
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