Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf: change size to u64 for bpf_map_{area_alloc,charge_init}()

[Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 04:43:07PM +0100, Björn Töpel wrote:
> From: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
> 
> The functions bpf_map_area_alloc() and bpf_map_charge_init() prior
> this commit passed the size parameter as size_t. In this commit this
> is changed to u64.
> 
> All users of these functions avoid size_t overflows on 32-bit systems,
> by explicitly using u64 when calculating the allocation size and
> memory charge cost. However, since the result was narrowed by the
> size_t when passing size and cost to the functions, the overflow
> handling was in vain.
> 
> Instead of changing all call sites to size_t and handle overflow at
> the call site, the parameter is changed to u64 and checked in the
> functions above.
> 
> Fixes: d407bd25a204 ("bpf: don't trigger OOM killer under pressure with map alloc")
> Fixes: c85d69135a91 ("bpf: move memory size checks to bpf_map_charge_init()")
> Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>

Applied, thanks!