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Christoph Hellwig
c59d87c460 xfs: remove subdirectories
Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the
annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code.  Besides the large
amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few
files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary
sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from
kernel/.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-08-12 16:21:35 -05:00
Denis Kirjanov
256c53a651 sysctl_check: drop dead code
Drop dead code.

Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:51 -07:00
Denis Kirjanov
814ecf6e5b sysctl_check: drop table->procname checks
Since the for loop checks for the table->procname drop useless
table->procname checks inside the loop body

Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:50 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
a9febbb4bd sysctl: min/max bounds are optional
sysctl check complains with a WARN() when proc_doulongvec_minmax() or
proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax() are used by a vector of longs (with
more than one element), with no min or max value specified.

This is unexpected, given we had a bug on this min/max handling :)

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-15 14:42:24 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
83ac201b4f sysctl: Remove dead code from sysctl_check
Now that the sys_sysctl is now a compatibility wrapper around
/proc/sys we can remove much of sysctl_check and reduce it
to a few remaining sanity checks.  This completely decouples
it from the binary sysctl system call.

Little things like ensuring that the sysctl has not already
been registered are all that remain.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11 00:42:53 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
8c85dd8730 sysctl: fix false positives when PROC_SYSCTL=n
Having ->procname but not ->proc_handler is valid when PROC_SYSCTL=n,
people use such combination to reduce ifdefs with non-standard handlers.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14408

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-29 07:39:30 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
eefef1cf76 net: add ARP notify option for devices
This adds another inet device option to enable gratuitous ARP
when device is brought up or address change. This is handy for
clusters or virtualization.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01 01:04:33 -08:00
Tim Shimmin
f3f0d7b026 [XFS] remove restricted chown parameter from xfs linux
On Linux all filesystems are supposed to be operating under Posix'
restricted chown. Restricted chown means it restricts chown to the owner
unless you have CAP_FOWNER.

NOTE: that 2 files outside of fs/xfs have been modified too for this
change.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

SGI-PV: 988919

SGI-Modid: 2.6.x-xfs-melb:linux:32413b

Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-10-30 18:30:09 +11:00
Alexey Dobriyan
99541c23cd sysctl: check for bogus modes
Catch, e. g., 644/0644 typo.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@parallels.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:45 -07:00
Jan Beulich
8b21985c91 constify tables in kernel/sysctl_check.c
Remains the question whether it is intended that many, perhaps even large,
tables are compiled in without ever having a chance to get used, i.e.
whether there shouldn't #ifdef CONFIG_xxx get added.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cut-n-paste error]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Serge E. Hallyn
3b7391de67 capabilities: introduce per-process capability bounding set
The capability bounding set is a set beyond which capabilities cannot grow.
 Currently cap_bset is per-system.  It can be manipulated through sysctl,
but only init can add capabilities.  Root can remove capabilities.  By
default it includes all caps except CAP_SETPCAP.

This patch makes the bounding set per-process when file capabilities are
enabled.  It is inherited at fork from parent.  Noone can add elements,
CAP_SETPCAP is required to remove them.

One example use of this is to start a safer container.  For instance, until
device namespaces or per-container device whitelists are introduced, it is
best to take CAP_MKNOD away from a container.

The bounding set will not affect pP and pE immediately.  It will only
affect pP' and pE' after subsequent exec()s.  It also does not affect pI,
and exec() does not constrain pI'.  So to really start a shell with no way
of regain CAP_MKNOD, you would do

	prctl(PR_CAPBSET_DROP, CAP_MKNOD);
	cap_t cap = cap_get_proc();
	cap_value_t caparray[1];
	caparray[0] = CAP_MKNOD;
	cap_set_flag(cap, CAP_INHERITABLE, 1, caparray, CAP_DROP);
	cap_set_proc(cap);
	cap_free(cap);

The following test program will get and set the bounding
set (but not pI).  For instance

	./bset get
		(lists capabilities in bset)
	./bset drop cap_net_raw
		(starts shell with new bset)
		(use capset, setuid binary, or binary with
		file capabilities to try to increase caps)

************************************************************
cap_bound.c
************************************************************
 #include <sys/prctl.h>
 #include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>

 #ifndef PR_CAPBSET_READ
 #define PR_CAPBSET_READ 23
 #endif

 #ifndef PR_CAPBSET_DROP
 #define PR_CAPBSET_DROP 24
 #endif

int usage(char *me)
{
	printf("Usage: %s get\n", me);
	printf("       %s drop <capability>\n", me);
	return 1;
}

 #define numcaps 32
char *captable[numcaps] = {
	"cap_chown",
	"cap_dac_override",
	"cap_dac_read_search",
	"cap_fowner",
	"cap_fsetid",
	"cap_kill",
	"cap_setgid",
	"cap_setuid",
	"cap_setpcap",
	"cap_linux_immutable",
	"cap_net_bind_service",
	"cap_net_broadcast",
	"cap_net_admin",
	"cap_net_raw",
	"cap_ipc_lock",
	"cap_ipc_owner",
	"cap_sys_module",
	"cap_sys_rawio",
	"cap_sys_chroot",
	"cap_sys_ptrace",
	"cap_sys_pacct",
	"cap_sys_admin",
	"cap_sys_boot",
	"cap_sys_nice",
	"cap_sys_resource",
	"cap_sys_time",
	"cap_sys_tty_config",
	"cap_mknod",
	"cap_lease",
	"cap_audit_write",
	"cap_audit_control",
	"cap_setfcap"
};

int getbcap(void)
{
	int comma=0;
	unsigned long i;
	int ret;

	printf("i know of %d capabilities\n", numcaps);
	printf("capability bounding set:");
	for (i=0; i<numcaps; i++) {
		ret = prctl(PR_CAPBSET_READ, i);
		if (ret < 0)
			perror("prctl");
		else if (ret==1)
			printf("%s%s", (comma++) ? ", " : " ", captable[i]);
	}
	printf("\n");
	return 0;
}

int capdrop(char *str)
{
	unsigned long i;

	int found=0;
	for (i=0; i<numcaps; i++) {
		if (strcmp(captable[i], str) == 0) {
			found=1;
			break;
		}
	}
	if (!found)
		return 1;
	if (prctl(PR_CAPBSET_DROP, i)) {
		perror("prctl");
		return 1;
	}
	return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	if (argc<2)
		return usage(argv[0]);
	if (strcmp(argv[1], "get")==0)
		return getbcap();
	if (strcmp(argv[1], "drop")!=0 || argc<3)
		return usage(argv[0]);
	if (capdrop(argv[2])) {
		printf("unknown capability\n");
		return 1;
	}
	return execl("/bin/bash", "/bin/bash", NULL);
}
************************************************************

[serue@us.ibm.com: fix typo]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>a
Signed-off-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:20 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
e51b6ba077 sysctl: Infrastructure for per namespace sysctls
This patch implements the basic infrastructure for per namespace sysctls.

A list of lists of sysctl headers is added, allowing each namespace to have
it's own list of sysctl headers.

Each list of sysctl headers has a lookup function to find the first
sysctl header in the list, allowing the lists to have a per namespace
instance.

register_sysct_root is added to tell sysctl.c about additional
lists of sysctl_headers.  As all of the users are expected to be in
kernel no unregister function is provided.

sysctl_head_next is updated to walk through the list of lists.

__register_sysctl_paths is added to add a new sysctl table on
a non-default sysctl list.

The only intrusive part of this patch is propagating the information
to decided which list of sysctls to use for sysctl_check_table.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:17 -08:00
Heiko Carstens
81ef16e763 [S390] Remove appldata include from sysctl_check.c
Forgot to remove this when removing the appldata binary sysctls.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:16 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman
64396accc2 sysctl: fix ax25 checks
Fix:

sysctl table check failed: /net/ax25/ax0/ax25_default_mode .3.9.1.2 Unknown
sysctl binary path
Pid: 2936, comm: kissattach Not tainted 2.6.24-rc5 #1
 [<c012ca6a>] set_fail+0x3b/0x43
 [<c012ce7a>] sysctl_check_table+0x408/0x456
 [<c012ce8e>] sysctl_check_table+0x41c/0x456
 [<c012ce8e>] sysctl_check_table+0x41c/0x456
 ...

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Bernard Pidoux <pidoux@ccr.jussieu.fr>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17 19:28:17 -08:00
David S. Miller
874a5f87f5 [SYSCTL_CHECK]: Fix typo in KERN_SPARC_SCONS_PWROFF entry string.
Based upon a report by Mikael Pettersson.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-05 05:37:56 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8c27eba549 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6: (41 commits)
  [XFRM]: Fix leak of expired xfrm_states
  [ATM]: [he] initialize lock and tasklet earlier
  [IPV4]: Remove bogus ifdef mess in arp_process
  [SKBUFF]: Free old skb properly in skb_morph
  [IPV4]: Fix memory leak in inet_hashtables.h when NUMA is on
  [IPSEC]: Temporarily remove locks around copying of non-atomic fields
  [TCP] MTUprobe: Cleanup send queue check (no need to loop)
  [TCP]: MTUprobe: receiver window & data available checks fixed
  [MAINTAINERS]: tlan list is subscribers-only
  [SUNRPC]: Remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
  [SUNRPC]: Make xprtsock.c:xs_setup_{udp,tcp}() static
  [PFKEY]: Sending an SADB_GET responds with an SADB_GET
  [IRDA]: Compilation for CONFIG_INET=n case
  [IPVS]: Fix compiler warning about unused register_ip_vs_protocol
  [ARP]: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0
  [IPV6] TCPMD5: Fix deleting key operation.
  [IPV6] TCPMD5: Check return value of tcp_alloc_md5sig_pool().
  [IPV4] TCPMD5: Use memmove() instead of memcpy() because we have overlaps.
  [IPV4] TCPMD5: Omit redundant NULL check for kfree() argument.
  ieee80211: Stop net_ratelimit/IEEE80211_DEBUG_DROP log pollution
  ...
2007-11-26 20:09:07 -08:00
Heiko Carstens
37e3a6ac5a [S390] appldata: remove unused binary sysctls.
Remove binary sysctls that never worked due to missing strategy functions.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-11-20 11:13:45 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
43ebbf119a [S390] cmm: remove unused binary sysctls.
Remove binary sysctls that never worked due to missing strategy functions.

Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-11-20 11:13:45 +01:00
Simon Horman
9055fa1f3d [IPVS]: Move remaining sysctl handlers over to CTL_UNNUMBERED
Switch the remaining IPVS sysctl entries over to to use CTL_UNNUMBERED,
I stronly doubt that anyone is using the sys_sysctl interface to
these variables.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-19 21:51:13 -08:00
Simon Horman
9e103fa6bd [IPVS]: Fix sysctl warnings about missing strategy in schedulers
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/lblc_expiration .3.5.21.19 Missing strategy
[...]
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/lblcr_expiration .3.5.21.20 Missing strategy

Switch these entried over to use CTL_UNNUMBERED as clearly
the sys_syscal portion wasn't working.

This is along the same lines as Christian Borntraeger's patch that fixes
up entries with no stratergy in net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-19 21:50:21 -08:00
Christian Borntraeger
611cd55b15 [IPVS]: Fix sysctl warnings about missing strategy
Running the latest git code I get the following messages during boot:
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/drop_entry .3.5.21.4 Missing strategy
[...]		  
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/drop_packet .3.5.21.5 Missing strategy
[...]
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/secure_tcp .3.5.21.6 Missing strategy
[...]
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/sync_threshold .3.5.21.24 Missing strategy

I removed the binary sysctl handler for those messages and also removed
the definitions in ip_vs.h. The alternative would be to implement a 
proper strategy handler, but syscall sysctl is deprecated.

There are other sysctl definitions that are commented out or work with 
the default sysctl_data strategy. I did not touch these. 

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-19 21:49:25 -08:00
Olof Johansson
ce1d18e006 [SYSCTL]: Fix warning for token-ring from sysctl checker
As seen when booting ppc64_defconfig:

sysctl table check failed: /net/token-ring .3.14 procname does not match binary path procname

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-13 21:15:24 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
5db6a4dac1 Dump stack during sysctl registration failure
Let's make immediately obvious from where sysctl comes from and messages
itself more noticeable.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05 15:12:31 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
5081dba658 Fix appletalk sysctl entry name
Gabriel C reported that modprobing appletalk on current git gives a
warning in dmesg :

   "sysctl table check failed: /net/appletalk .3.7 procname does not match binary path procname"

Oops.  My apologies it appears I made a mistake when creating my table
to check up on sysctl values.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-22 19:15:59 -07:00
Andrew Morgan
72c2d5823f V3 file capabilities: alter behavior of cap_setpcap
The non-filesystem capability meaning of CAP_SETPCAP is that a process, p1,
can change the capabilities of another process, p2.  This is not the
meaning that was intended for this capability at all, and this
implementation came about purely because, without filesystem capabilities,
there was no way to use capabilities without one process bestowing them on
another.

Since we now have a filesystem support for capabilities we can fix the
implementation of CAP_SETPCAP.

The most significant thing about this change is that, with it in effect, no
process can set the capabilities of another process.

The capabilities of a program are set via the capability convolution
rules:

   pI(post-exec) = pI(pre-exec)
   pP(post-exec) = (X(aka cap_bset) & fP) | (pI(post-exec) & fI)
   pE(post-exec) = fE ? pP(post-exec) : 0

at exec() time.  As such, the only influence the pre-exec() program can
have on the post-exec() program's capabilities are through the pI
capability set.

The correct implementation for CAP_SETPCAP (and that enabled by this patch)
is that it can be used to add extra pI capabilities to the current process
- to be picked up by subsequent exec()s when the above convolution rules
are applied.

Here is how it works:

Let's say we have a process, p. It has capability sets, pE, pP and pI.
Generally, p, can change the value of its own pI to pI' where

   (pI' & ~pI) & ~pP = 0.

That is, the only new things in pI' that were not present in pI need to
be present in pP.

The role of CAP_SETPCAP is basically to permit changes to pI beyond
the above:

   if (pE & CAP_SETPCAP) {
      pI' = anything; /* ie., even (pI' & ~pI) & ~pP != 0  */
   }

This capability is useful for things like login, which (say, via
pam_cap) might want to raise certain inheritable capabilities for use
by the children of the logged-in user's shell, but those capabilities
are not useful to or needed by the login program itself.

One such use might be to limit who can run ping. You set the
capabilities of the 'ping' program to be "= cap_net_raw+i", and then
only shells that have (pI & CAP_NET_RAW) will be able to run
it. Without CAP_SETPCAP implemented as described above, login(pam_cap)
would have to also have (pP & CAP_NET_RAW) in order to raise this
capability and pass it on through the inheritable set.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
8ada720d89 sysctl: for irda update sysctl_checks list of binary paths
It turns out that the net/irda code didn't register any of it's binary paths
in the global sysctl.h header file so I missed them completely when making an
authoritative list of binary sysctl paths in the kernel.  So add them to the
list of valid binary sysctl paths.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
49ffcf8f99 sysctl: update sysctl_check_table
Well it turns out after I dug into the problems a little more I was returning
a few false positives so this patch updates my logic to remove them.

- Don't complain about 0 ctl_names in sysctl_check_binary_path
  It is valid for someone to remove the sysctl binary interface
  and still keep the same sysctl proc interface.

- Count ctl_names and procnames as matching if they both don't
  exist.

- Only warn about missing min&max when the generic functions care.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
fc6cd25b73 sysctl: Error on bad sysctl tables
After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has become
clear that code review and testing is just not effective in prevent
problematic sysctl tables from being used in the stable kernel.  I certainly
can't seem to fix the problems as fast as they are introduced.

Therefore this patch adds sysctl_check_table which is called when a sysctl
table is registered and checks to see if we have a problematic sysctl table.

The biggest part of the code is the table of valid binary sysctl entries, but
since we have frozen our set of binary sysctls this table should not need to
change, and it makes it much easier to detect when someone unintentionally
adds a new binary sysctl value.

As best as I can determine all of the several hundred errors spewed on boot up
now are legitimate.

[bunk@kernel.org: kernel/sysctl_check.c must #include <linux/string.h>]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00