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seq_file: disallow extremely large seq buffer allocations
authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Tue, 13 Jul 2021 15:49:23 +0000 (17:49 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:22:44 +0000 (16:22 +0200)
commit3533e50cbee8ff086bfa04176ac42a01ee3db37d
tree60089ef2b5327ce776936c21630de6f9926c0891
parentc41c926d9dfb3c81da370faf678eb06f7f48ba77
seq_file: disallow extremely large seq buffer allocations

commit 8cae8cd89f05f6de223d63e6d15e31c8ba9cf53b upstream.

There is no reasonable need for a buffer larger than this, and it avoids
int overflow pitfalls.

Fixes: 058504edd026 ("fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation")
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/seq_file.c