Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 3 authors, 2018-02-09

Re: [PATCH net V3 2/2] ptr_ring: fail on large queue size (>64K)

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2018-02-08 04:52:40

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:59:25AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
We need limit the maximum size of queue, otherwise it may cause
several side effects e.g slab will warn when the size exceeds
KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE. Using KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE still looks too so this patch
tries to limit it to 64K. This value could be revisited if we found a
real case that needs more.

Reported-by: syzbot+e4d4f9ddd4295539735d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 2e0ab8ca83c12 ("ptr_ring: array based FIFO for pointers")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>
---
 include/linux/ptr_ring.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
index 2af71a7..5858d48 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ struct ptr_ring {
 	void **queue;
 };
 
Seems like a weird location for a define. Either put defines on
top of the file, or near where they are used. I prefer the
second option.
+#define PTR_RING_MAX_ALLOC 65536
+
I guess it's an arbitrary number. Seems like a sufficiently large one,
but pls add a comment so readers don't wonder. And please explain what
it does:

/* Callers can create ptr_ring structures with userspace-supplied
 * parameters. This sets a limit on the size to make that usecase
 * safe. If you ever change this, make sure to audit all callers.
 */

Also I think we should generally use either hex 0x10000 or (1 << 16).
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
 /* Note: callers invoking this in a loop must use a compiler barrier,
  * for example cpu_relax().
  *
@@ -466,6 +468,8 @@ static inline int ptr_ring_consume_batched_bh(struct ptr_ring *r,
 
 static inline void **__ptr_ring_init_queue_alloc(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp)
 {
+	if (size > PTR_RING_MAX_ALLOC)
+		return NULL;
 	return kvmalloc_array(size, sizeof(void *), gfp | __GFP_ZERO);
 }
 
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2.7.4
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