sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec

Currently, inputting the following command will succeed but actually the
value will be truncated:

  # echo 0x12ffffffff > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat

This is not friendly to the user, so instead, we should report error
when the value is larger than UINT_MAX.

Fixes: e7d316a02f ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Liping Zhang authored and Linus Torvalds committed 2017-04-08 10:27:40 -07:00
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@@ -2133,6 +2133,8 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
if (write) {
if (*negp)
return -EINVAL;
if (*lvalp > UINT_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
*valp = *lvalp;
} else {
unsigned int val = *valp;