From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: nico@fluxnic.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: patch "vt: don't hardcode the mem allocation upper bound" added to tty-linus
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:47:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <158764962512885@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vt: don't hardcode the mem allocation upper bound
to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
From 2717769e204e83e65b8819c5e2ef3e5b6639b270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 17:32:42 -0400
Subject: vt: don't hardcode the mem allocation upper bound
The code in vc_do_resize() bounds the memory allocation size to avoid
exceeding MAX_ORDER down the kzalloc() call chain and generating a
runtime warning triggerable from user space. However, not only is it
unwise to use a literal value here, but MAX_ORDER may also be
configurable based on CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER.
Let's use KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE instead.
Note that prior commit bb1107f7c605 ("mm, slab: make sure that
KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE will fit into MAX_ORDER") the KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE value
could not be relied upon.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.10+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YSQ.7.76.2003281702410.2671@knanqh.ubzr
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 3272759b1f3c..e5ffed795e4c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc,
if (new_cols == vc->vc_cols && new_rows == vc->vc_rows)
return 0;
- if (new_screen_size > (4 << 20))
+ if (new_screen_size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
return -EINVAL;
newscreen = kzalloc(new_screen_size, GFP_USER);
if (!newscreen)
--
2.26.2
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