The kernel doesn't check the pid for negative values, so if you try to
write -2 to /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid, you will get a kernel panic.
The crash happens because the next pid is -1, and alloc_pidmap() will
try to access to a nonexistent pidmap.
map = &pid_ns->pidmap[pid/BITS_PER_PAGE];
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
*/
tmp.data = ¤t->nsproxy->pid_ns->last_pid;
*/
tmp.data = ¤t->nsproxy->pid_ns->last_pid;
- return proc_dointvec(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+ return proc_dointvec_minmax(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+extern int pid_max;
+static int zero = 0;
static struct ctl_table pid_ns_ctl_table[] = {
{
.procname = "ns_last_pid",
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0666, /* permissions are checked in the handler */
.proc_handler = pid_ns_ctl_handler,
static struct ctl_table pid_ns_ctl_table[] = {
{
.procname = "ns_last_pid",
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0666, /* permissions are checked in the handler */
.proc_handler = pid_ns_ctl_handler,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
+ .extra2 = &pid_max,