From 5b2352c64c4829fc4fc039182fb182a013cb61b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Krister Johansen Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:46:40 -0700 Subject: proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init commit 8001f49394e353f035306a45bcf504f06fca6355 upstream. The code that checks for unknown boot options is unaware of the sysctl alias facility, which maps bootparams to sysctl values. If a user sets an old value that has a valid alias, a message about an invalid parameter will be printed during boot, and the parameter will get passed to init. Fix by checking for the existence of aliased parameters in the unknown boot parameter code. If an alias exists, don't return an error or pass the value to init. Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 0a477e1ae21b ("kernel/sysctl: support handling command line aliases") Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- init/main.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index fe378351e8a9..87a52bdb41d6 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -533,6 +533,10 @@ static int __init unknown_bootoption(char *param, char *val, { size_t len = strlen(param); + /* Handle params aliased to sysctls */ + if (sysctl_is_alias(param)) + return 0; + repair_env_string(param, val); /* Handle obsolete-style parameters */ -- cgit v1.2.3