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Commit 2ccd4f4d authored by Sasha Levin's avatar Sasha Levin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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pipe: fail cleanly when root tries F_SETPIPE_SZ with big size



When a user with the CAP_SYS_RESOURCE cap tries to F_SETPIPE_SZ a pipe
with size bigger than kmalloc() can alloc it spits out an ugly warning:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2095 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5d3/0x7a0()
  Pid: 733, comm: a.out Not tainted 3.2.0-rc1+ #4
  Call Trace:
     warn_slowpath_common+0x75/0xb0
     warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
     __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5d3/0x7a0
     __get_free_pages+0x12/0x50
     __kmalloc+0x12b/0x150
     pipe_set_size+0x75/0x120
     pipe_fcntl+0xf8/0x140
     do_fcntl+0x2d4/0x410
     sys_fcntl+0x66/0xa0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  ---[ end trace 432f702e6db7b5ee ]---

Instead, make kcalloc() handle the overflow case and fail quietly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch to sizeof(*bufs) for 80-column niceness]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 888a214d
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