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| author | Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> | 2016-12-13 01:46:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-13 03:55:10 +0100 |
| commit | 30f74aa0854c2d5a331b507b14fe421ba4980511 (patch) | |
| tree | db150237a10336a84e822e626e275374a5485b67 /fs/binfmt_elf.c | |
| parent | checkpatch: don't emit unified-diff error for rename-only patches (diff) | |
| download | linux-30f74aa0854c2d5a331b507b14fe421ba4980511.tar.xz linux-30f74aa0854c2d5a331b507b14fe421ba4980511.zip | |
binfmt_elf: use vmalloc() for allocation of vma_filesz
We have observed page allocations failures of order 4 during core dump
while trying to allocate vma_filesz. This results in a useless core
file of size 0. To improve reliability use vmalloc().
Note that the vmalloc() allocation is bounded by sysctl_max_map_count,
which is 65,530 by default. So with a 4k page size, and 8 bytes per
seg, this is a max of 128 pages or an order 7 allocation. Other parts
of the core dump path, such as fill_files_note() are already using
vmalloc() for presumably similar reasons.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479745791-17611-1-git-send-email-jbaron@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/binfmt_elf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 2472af2798c7..e6c1bd443806 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -2204,7 +2204,9 @@ static int elf_core_dump(struct coredump_params *cprm) dataoff = offset = roundup(offset, ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE); - vma_filesz = kmalloc_array(segs - 1, sizeof(*vma_filesz), GFP_KERNEL); + if (segs - 1 > ULONG_MAX / sizeof(*vma_filesz)) + goto end_coredump; + vma_filesz = vmalloc((segs - 1) * sizeof(*vma_filesz)); if (!vma_filesz) goto end_coredump; @@ -2311,7 +2313,7 @@ end_coredump: cleanup: free_note_info(&info); kfree(shdr4extnum); - kfree(vma_filesz); + vfree(vma_filesz); kfree(phdr4note); kfree(elf); out: |