[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 24/80] net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and bytes

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Mar 19 22:35:12 UTC 2015


3.13.11-ckt17 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>

commit db27ebb111e9f69efece08e4cb6a34ff980f8896 upstream.

Max unacked packets/bytes is an int while sizeof(long) was used in the
sysctl table.

This means that when they were getting read we'd also leak kernel memory
to userspace along with the timeout values.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/rds/sysctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/sysctl.c b/net/rds/sysctl.c
index b5cb2aa..35773ad 100644
--- a/net/rds/sysctl.c
+++ b/net/rds/sysctl.c
@@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ static struct ctl_table rds_sysctl_rds_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "max_unacked_packets",
 		.data		= &rds_sysctl_max_unacked_packets,
-		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned long),
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "max_unacked_bytes",
 		.data		= &rds_sysctl_max_unacked_bytes,
-		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned long),
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
 	},
-- 
1.9.1





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