[PATCH v2] mm: module_alloc: check if size is 0

Veli-Pekka Peltola
2012-03-07T13:09:28Z

After commit de7d2b567d040e3b67fe7121945982f14343213d (mm/vmalloc.c: report
more vmalloc failures) users will get a warning if vmalloc_node_range() is
called with size 0. This happens if module's init size equals to 0. This
patch changes ARM, MIPS and x86 module_alloc() to return NULL before calling
vmalloc_node_range() that would also return NULL and print a warning.

Signed-off-by: Veli-Pekka Peltola <veli-pekka.peltola@bluegiga.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
---
I found this with ARM but after checking out various implementations of
module_alloc() I thought it would be better to fix all at once.

One way to replicate the warning:
compile kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n
insmod a module without init, I used usb-common.ko

Changes since v1:
- changed style as hpa suggested

arch/arm/kernel/module.c | 2 ++
arch/mips/kernel/module.c | 2 ++
arch/x86/kernel/module.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/module.c b/arch/arm/kernel/module.c
index 1e9be5d..17648e2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/module.c
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
{
+ if (!size)
+ return NULL;
return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END,
GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, -1,
__builtin_return_address(0));
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/module.c b/arch/mips/kernel/module.c
index a5066b1..1a51de1 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/module.c
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dbe_lock);
#ifdef MODULE_START
void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
{
+ if (!size)
+ return NULL;
return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, MODULE_START, MODULE_END,
GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL, -1,
__builtin_return_address(0));
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
index 925179f..fd44d69 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@

void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
{
- if (PAGE_ALIGN(size) > MODULES_LEN)
+ if (!size || PAGE_ALIGN(size) > MODULES_LEN)
return NULL;
return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END,
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC,
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