The process_sysctl_arg() does not check whether val is empty before
invoking strlen(val). If the command line parameter () is incorrectly
configured and val is empty, oops is triggered.
For example:
"hung_task_panic=1" is incorrectly written as "hung_task_panic", oops is
triggered. The call stack is as follows:
Kernel command line: .... hung_task_panic
......
Call trace:
__pi_strlen+0x10/0x98
parse_args+0x278/0x344
do_sysctl_args+0x8c/0xfc
kernel_init+0x5c/0xf4
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30
To fix it, check whether "val" is empty when "phram" is a sysctl field.
Error codes are returned in the failure branch, and error logs are
generated by parse_args().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210118133029.28580-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com
Fixes: 3db978d480 ("kernel/sysctl: support setting sysctl parameters from kernel command line")
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>