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-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 3a1744fed2b6..0deed82a6156 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2620,6 +2620,10 @@ static int deprecated_sysctl_warning(struct __sysctl_args *args)
int name[CTL_MAXNAME];
int i;
+ /* Check args->nlen. */
+ if (args->nlen < 0 || args->nlen > CTL_MAXNAME)
+ return -ENOTDIR;
+
/* Read in the sysctl name for better debug message logging */
for (i = 0; i < args->nlen; i++)
if (get_user(name[i], args->name + i))