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Re: [PATCH V4 1/2] ptr_ring: fail early if queue occupies more than KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2018-02-09 15:39:13
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On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 05:45:49PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
To avoid slab to warn about exceeded size, fail early if queue
occupies more than KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE.

Reported-by: syzbot+e4d4f9ddd4295539735d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 2e0ab8ca83c12 ("ptr_ring: array based FIFO for pointers")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 include/linux/ptr_ring.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
index 1883d61..6051a5f 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
@@ -466,6 +466,8 @@ 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 * sizeof(void *) > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+		return NULL;
 	return kcalloc(size, sizeof(void *), gfp);
 }
 
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2.7.4
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