From 6e3644aca0bcb572e461ace04d7045beeebb4aaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 12:09:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] proc: proc_skip_spaces() shouldn't think it is working on C strings commit bce9332220bd677d83b19d21502776ad555a0e73 upstream. proc_skip_spaces() seems to think it is working on C strings, and ends up being just a wrapper around skip_spaces() with a really odd calling convention. Instead of basing it on skip_spaces(), it should have looked more like proc_skip_char(), which really is the exact same function (except it skips a particular character, rather than whitespace). So use that as inspiration, odd coding and all. Now the calling convention actually makes sense and works for the intended purpose. Reported-and-tested-by: Kyle Zeng Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sysctl.c | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index bbd0876e100b..9890f93a56fb 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2041,13 +2041,14 @@ int proc_dostring(struct ctl_table *table, int write, (char __user *)buffer, lenp, ppos); } -static size_t proc_skip_spaces(char **buf) +static void proc_skip_spaces(char **buf, size_t *size) { - size_t ret; - char *tmp = skip_spaces(*buf); - ret = tmp - *buf; - *buf = tmp; - return ret; + while (*size) { + if (!isspace(**buf)) + break; + (*size)--; + (*buf)++; + } } static void proc_skip_char(char **buf, size_t *size, const char v) @@ -2260,7 +2261,7 @@ static int __do_proc_dointvec(void *tbl_data, struct ctl_table *table, bool neg; if (write) { - left -= proc_skip_spaces(&p); + proc_skip_spaces(&p, &left); if (!left) break; @@ -2291,7 +2292,7 @@ static int __do_proc_dointvec(void *tbl_data, struct ctl_table *table, if (!write && !first && left && !err) err = proc_put_char(&buffer, &left, '\n'); if (write && !err && left) - left -= proc_skip_spaces(&p); + proc_skip_spaces(&p, &left); if (write) { kfree(kbuf); if (first) @@ -2543,7 +2544,7 @@ static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table *table, int if (write) { bool neg; - left -= proc_skip_spaces(&p); + proc_skip_spaces(&p, &left); if (!left) break; @@ -2576,7 +2577,7 @@ static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table *table, int if (!write && !first && left && !err) err = proc_put_char(&buffer, &left, '\n'); if (write && !err) - left -= proc_skip_spaces(&p); + proc_skip_spaces(&p, &left); if (write) { kfree(kbuf); if (first)