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sysctl: add some missing input constraint checks

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Add boundaries of allowed input ranges for: dirty_expire_centisecs,
drop_caches, overcommit_memory, page-cluster and panic_on_oom.

Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Petr Holasek
2011-03-23 16:43:09 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 256c53a651
commit cb16e95fa2
2 changed files with 18 additions and 5 deletions
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fs/drop_caches.c
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@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@ static void drop_slab(void)
int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
int ret;
ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
if (ret)
return ret;
if (write) {
if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1)
iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);