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Commit 174c34d9 authored by Eric Sandeen's avatar Eric Sandeen Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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seq_file: disallow extremely large seq buffer allocations

commit 8cae8cd8 upstream.

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

Fixes: 058504ed

 ("fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation")
Suggested-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: default avatarQualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent b33aa0db
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