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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2015-07-06 17:13:26 +0200
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2015-08-27 09:26:56 +0200
commit161a5358f11f2958c1699724d2661f907c948d73 (patch)
tree90c77c09e36b05ecfd41c56be6f954be62d378a9
parente27e696c238ec5d7c2d445135be808de6047ced3 (diff)
net: graceful exit from netif_alloc_netdev_queues()
[ Upstream commit d339727c2b1a10f25e6636670ab6e1841170e328 ] 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 3ca487e14080..5a407f0f1c2d 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5559,7 +5559,8 @@ 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) {