From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 3.14 44/84] net: graceful exit from netif_alloc_netdev_queues() Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:18:36 +0200 Message-Id: <20150929145332.881498484@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20150929145330.924730721@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20150929145330.924730721@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Dumazet [ Upstream commit d339727c2b1a10f25e6636670ab6e1841170e328 ] User space can crash kernel with ip link add ifb10 numtxqueues 100000 type ifb We must replace a BUG_ON() by proper test and return -EINVAL for crazy values. Fixes: 60877a32bce00 ("net: allow large number of tx queues") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/core/dev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5951,7 +5951,8 @@ static int netif_alloc_netdev_queues(str struct netdev_queue *tx; size_t sz = count * sizeof(*tx); - BUG_ON(count < 1 || count > 0xffff); + if (count < 1 || count > 0xffff) + return -EINVAL; tx = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT); if (!tx) {