seq_file: disallow extremely large seq buffer allocations
There is no reasonable need for a buffer larger than this, and it avoids
int overflow pitfalls.
Fixes: 058504edd026 ("fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation")
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index b117b212..4a2cda0 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
static void *seq_buf_alloc(unsigned long size)
{
+ if (unlikely(size > MAX_RW_COUNT))
+ return NULL;
+
return kvmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
}
