From: venkat venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
To: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] rds: limit the size allocated by rds_message_alloc()
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:43:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5134B2F7.3000207@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362363491-24501-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com>
On 3/3/2013 8:18 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
>
> Dave Jones reported the following bug:
>
> "When fed mangled socket data, rds will trust what userspace gives it,
> and tries to allocate enormous amounts of memory larger than what
> kmalloc can satisfy."
>
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
>
Acked-by: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-04 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-04 2:18 [Patch net] rds: limit the size allocated by rds_message_alloc() Cong Wang
2013-03-04 14:43 ` venkat venkatsubra [this message]
2013-03-04 19:14 ` David Miller
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