Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Dec 2020 19:40:33 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] misc/vmw_vmci: bail out earlier on too big queue allocation |
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On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 06:40:57PM +0100, nslusarek@gmx.net wrote: > From: Norbert Slusarek <nslusarek@gmx.net> > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 19:16:41 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] misc/vmw_vmci: bail out earlier on too big queue allocation > > For the allocation of a queue pair in qp_host_alloc_queue() an arbitrary value can be > passed for produce_size, which can lead to miscalculation of memory we'd like to allocate > in one take. A warning is triggered at __alloc_pages_nodemask() in mm/page_alloc.c:4737 > which aborts the false allocation, but it results in a VMware machine freezing > for an infinite time. > > Signed-off-by: Norbert Slusarek <nslusarek@gmx.net> >
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Can you resend this in a non-html format, so that we can apply it, and so it will show up on the public mailing lists?
thanks,
greg k-h
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