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>

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 72f2b373221ed99278a944be8ccef03e12ce9d7a..921d291c2aee35de166724785680c5c2227a6577 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -1830,6 +1830,13 @@ 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 780690dc08cda2ccff91d49d5f9ee6088ee8f84a..a207c7ed41bd255b8570544ab1a561d2cb97162b 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ 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,
@@ -301,6 +302,11 @@ 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 fe378351e8a95f3f832e8cbe54e807a5760e9164..87a52bdb41d67177b4a691f01b397d69a5b06413 100644 (file)
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -533,6 +533,10 @@ 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 */