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net: graceful exit from netif_alloc_netdev_queues()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Mon, 6 Jul 2015 15:13:26 +0000 (17:13 +0200)
committerLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:10:16 +0000 (17:10 +0100)
commit d339727c2b1a10f25e6636670ab6e1841170e328 upstream.

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 <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
net/core/dev.c

index afa766c453e005d62479615643cbf280199ce455..2e616d68a7aa02cfb0c1c53716d6b096293bf8e2 100644 (file)
@@ -6049,7 +6049,8 @@ static int netif_alloc_netdev_queues(struct net_device *dev)
        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) {