From 8001f49394e353f035306a45bcf504f06fca6355 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Krister Johansen Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:46:40 -0700 Subject: proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init 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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 0a477e1ae21b ("kernel/sysctl: support handling command line aliases") Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain --- include/linux/sysctl.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index 09d7429d67c0..61b40ea81f4d 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ 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, @@ -287,6 +288,11 @@ 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, -- cgit v1.2.3