[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 059/118] net: graceful exit from netif_alloc_netdev_queues()

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Aug 12 08:56:01 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt16 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>

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 at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index afa766c453e0..2e616d68a7aa 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -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) {




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