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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>2017-07-12 14:33:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-12 16:26:00 -0700
commita19ac3374995382a994653ff372b98ea7cbad548 (patch)
treeea6ed73455c4d801a2cf35d061afe517df5ddf61 /kernel/sysctl.c
parent89c5b53b16bf577079d4f0311406dbea3c71202c (diff)
sysctl: kdoc'ify sysctl_writes_strict
Document the different sysctl_writes_strict modes in code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-3-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c29
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 4dfba1a76cc3..02725178694a 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -174,11 +174,32 @@ extern int no_unaligned_warning;
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
-#define SYSCTL_WRITES_LEGACY -1
-#define SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN 0
-#define SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT 1
+/**
+ * enum sysctl_writes_mode - supported sysctl write modes
+ *
+ * @SYSCTL_WRITES_LEGACY: each write syscall must fully contain the sysctl value
+ * to be written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor
+ * will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position. No warning
+ * is issued when the initial position is not 0.
+ * @SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN: same as above but warn when the initial file position is
+ * not 0.
+ * @SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT: writes to numeric sysctl entries must always be at
+ * file position 0 and the value must be fully contained in the buffer
+ * sent to the write syscall. If dealing with strings respect the file
+ * position, but restrict this to the max length of the buffer, anything
+ * passed the max lenght will be ignored. Multiple writes will append
+ * to the buffer.
+ *
+ * These write modes control how current file position affects the behavior of
+ * updating sysctl values through the proc interface on each write.
+ */
+enum sysctl_writes_mode {
+ SYSCTL_WRITES_LEGACY = -1,
+ SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN = 0,
+ SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT = 1,
+};
-static int sysctl_writes_strict = SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT;
+static enum sysctl_writes_mode sysctl_writes_strict = SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT;
static int proc_do_cad_pid(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);