commit 579035dc5ddd6d48fd8529e7358b03d911ab9d8a
author Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Mon Sep 17 14:09:12 2012 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Mon Sep 17 15:00:38 2012 -0700
tree bd54e0a33715547454b241124258c0c3c0d2be5e
parent 35c448a8a3471b95ebc0ebcf91eb1183401b4274

pid-namespace: limit value of ns_last_pid to (0, max_pid)

The kernel doesn't check the pid for negative values, so if you try to
write -2 to /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid, you will get a kernel panic.

The crash happens because the next pid is -1, and alloc_pidmap() will
try to access to a nonexistent pidmap.

  map = &pid_ns->pidmap[pid/BITS_PER_PAGE];

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

kernel/pid_namespace.c

diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index b3c7fd5..6144bab 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -232,15 +232,19 @@
 	 */
 
 	tmp.data = &current->nsproxy->pid_ns->last_pid;
-	return proc_dointvec(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+	return proc_dointvec_minmax(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 }
 
+extern int pid_max;
+static int zero = 0;
 static struct ctl_table pid_ns_ctl_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname = "ns_last_pid",
 		.maxlen = sizeof(int),
 		.mode = 0666, /* permissions are checked in the handler */
 		.proc_handler = pid_ns_ctl_handler,
+		.extra1 = &zero,
+		.extra2 = &pid_max,
 	},
 	{ }
 };