From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20120330194857.937774211@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:51:03 -0700 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Tim Abbott , Sasha Levin , Rusty Russell Subject: [ 158/175] module: Remove module size limit In-Reply-To: <20120330195801.GA31806@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sasha Levin commit f946eeb9313ff1470758e171a60fe7438a2ded3f upstream. 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: Tim Abbott Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/module.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2380,8 +2380,7 @@ static int copy_and_check(struct load_in 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) {