Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2012-02-03

Re: [PATCH] module: Remove module size limit

From: Sasha Levin <hidden>
Date: 2012-01-31 04:13:13
Also in: lkml

Rusty,

I'm not sure why git forgot to add the 'From' line, but if you do merge
it please add:

From: Sasha Levin <redacted>

Thanks!

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 23:07 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Module size was limited to 64MB, this was legacy limitation due to vmalloc()
which was removed a while ago.

Limiting module size to 64MB is both pointless and affects real world use
cases.

Cc: Rusty Russell <redacted>
Cc: Tim Abbott <redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
---
 kernel/module.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 2c93276..3d56b6f 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2380,8 +2380,7 @@ static int copy_and_check(struct load_info *info,
 		return -ENOEXEC;
 
 	/* Suck in entire file: we'll want most of it. */
-	/* vmalloc barfs on "unusual" numbers.  Check here */
-	if (len > 64 * 1024 * 1024 || (hdr = vmalloc(len)) == NULL)
+	if ((hdr = vmalloc(len)) == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	if (copy_from_user(hdr, umod, len) != 0) {

-- 

Sasha.
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