Move boundary checking for proc_dou8ved_minmax into module loading, thereby reporting errors in advance. And add a kunit test case ensuring the boundary check is done correctly. The boundary check in proc_dou8vec_minmax done to the extra elements in the ctl_table struct is currently performed at runtime. This allows buggy kernel modules to be loaded normally without any errors only to fail when used. This is a buggy example module: #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/sysctl.h> static struct ctl_table_header *_table_header = NULL; static unsigned char _data = 0; struct ctl_table table[] = { { .procname = "foo", .data = &_data, .maxlen = sizeof(u8), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dou8vec_minmax, .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, .extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE_THOUSAND, }, }; static int init_demo(void) { _table_header = register_sysctl("kernel", table); if (!_table_header) return -ENOMEM; return 0; } module_init(init_demo); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); And this is the result: # insmod test.ko # cat /proc/sys/kernel/foo cat: /proc/sys/kernel/foo: Invalid argument Suggested-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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