kernel/sysctl.c: ignore out-of-range taint bits introduced via kernel.tainted
Users with SYS_ADMIN capability can add arbitrary taint flags to the
running kernel by writing to /proc/sys/kernel/tainted or issuing the
command 'sysctl -w kernel.tainted=...'. This interface, however, is
open for any integer value and this might cause an invalid set of flags
being committed to the tainted_mask bitset.
This patch introduces a simple way for proc_taint() to ignore any
eventual invalid bit coming from the user input before committing those
bits to the kernel tainted_mask.
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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