Sysctl handlers are not supposed to modify the ctl_table passed to them.
Adapt the logic to work with a temporary
variable, similar to how it is done in other parts of the kernel.

This is also a prerequisite to enforce the immutability of the argument
through the callbacks prototy.

Fixes: 964c9dff0091 ("stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack 
erasing")
Cc: [email protected]
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
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This was split out of my sysctl-const-handler series [0].

As that series will take some more time, submit the patch on its own,
as it is a generic bugfix that is valuable on its own.
And I can get it out of my books.

Changelog in contrast to the patch in the series:
* Reword commit message to remove strong relation to the constification
* Cc stable

[0] 
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

Cc: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/stackleak.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/stackleak.c b/kernel/stackleak.c
index 34c9d81eea94..b292e5ca0b7d 100644
--- a/kernel/stackleak.c
+++ b/kernel/stackleak.c
@@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ static int stack_erasing_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, 
int write,
        int ret = 0;
        int state = !static_branch_unlikely(&stack_erasing_bypass);
        int prev_state = state;
+       struct ctl_table tmp = *table;
 
-       table->data = &state;
-       table->maxlen = sizeof(int);
-       ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+       tmp.data = &state;
+       tmp.maxlen = sizeof(int);
+       ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
        state = !!state;
        if (ret || !write || state == prev_state)
                return ret;

---
base-commit: f03359bca01bf4372cf2c118cd9a987a5951b1c8
change-id: 20240503-sysctl-const-stackleak-af3e67bc65b0

Best regards,
-- 
Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>


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