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authorKrister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>2023-10-28 00:46:40 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-11-28 20:19:57 +0300
commit2b1ee516b16a4174a906010d2d42bae5ce78ba04 (patch)
tree538d3be5709d072b796cd59c28ec22aa87988e6e
parentd567eb7366073d33c4b4254f0e2b28a7f13f1d1f (diff)
downloadlinux-2b1ee516b16a4174a906010d2d42bae5ce78ba04.tar.xz
proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init
commit 8001f49394e353f035306a45bcf504f06fca6355 upstream. The code that checks for unknown boot options is unaware of the sysctl alias facility, which maps bootparams to sysctl values. If a user sets an old value that has a valid alias, a message about an invalid parameter will be printed during boot, and the parameter will get passed to init. Fix by checking for the existence of aliased parameters in the unknown boot parameter code. If an alias exists, don't return an error or pass the value to init. Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 0a477e1ae21b ("kernel/sysctl: support handling command line aliases") Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c7
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysctl.h6
-rw-r--r--init/main.c4
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index c88854df0b62..1c9635dddb70 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -1592,6 +1592,13 @@ static const char *sysctl_find_alias(char *param)
return NULL;
}
+bool sysctl_is_alias(char *param)
+{
+ const char *alias = sysctl_find_alias(param);
+
+ return alias != NULL;
+}
+
/* Set sysctl value passed on kernel command line. */
static int process_sysctl_arg(char *param, char *val,
const char *unused, void *arg)
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 09d7429d67c0..61b40ea81f4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ extern void __register_sysctl_init(const char *path, struct ctl_table *table,
extern struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_mount_point(const char *path);
void do_sysctl_args(void);
+bool sysctl_is_alias(char *param);
int do_proc_douintvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos,
int (*conv)(unsigned long *lvalp,
@@ -287,6 +288,11 @@ static inline void setup_sysctl_set(struct ctl_table_set *p,
static inline void do_sysctl_args(void)
{
}
+
+static inline bool sysctl_is_alias(char *param)
+{
+ return false;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
int sysctl_max_threads(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 436d73261810..e24b0780fdff 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -530,6 +530,10 @@ static int __init unknown_bootoption(char *param, char *val,
{
size_t len = strlen(param);
+ /* Handle params aliased to sysctls */
+ if (sysctl_is_alias(param))
+ return 0;
+
repair_env_string(param, val);
/* Handle obsolete-style parameters */