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Revision b71dbf1032f546bf3efd60fb5d9d0cefd200a508 authored by Darrick J. Wong on 15 September 2016, 03:20:44 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 15 September 2016, 20:29:52 UTC
Kirill A Shutemov reports that the kernel doesn't try to cap dest_count
in any way, and uses the number to allocate kernel memory.  This causes
high order allocation warnings in the kernel log if someone passes in a
big enough value.  We should clamp the allocation at PAGE_SIZE to avoid
stressing the VM.

The two existing users of the dedupe ioctl never send more than 120
requests, so we can safely clamp dest_range at PAGE_SIZE, because with
4k pages we can handle up to 127 dedupe candidates.  Given the max
extent length of 16MB, we can end up doing 2GB of IO which is plenty.

[ Note: the "offsetof()" can't overflow, because 'count' is just a
  16-bit integer.  That's not obvious in the limited context of the
  patch, so I'm noting it here because it made me go look.  - Linus ]

Reported-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: a4412fdd49dc011bcc2c0d81ac4cab7457092650 authored by Steven Rostedt (Google) on 21 November 2022, 15:44:03 UTC
error-injection: Add prompt for function error injection
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