Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:20:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH next] vt: fix a warning when kmalloc alloc large memory |
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:55:14PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, Chen Wandun wrote: > > > > > If the memory size that use kmalloc() to allocate exceed MAX_ORDER pages, > > > it will hit the WARN_ON_ONCE(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN)), so add memory > > > allocation flag __GFP_NOWARN to silence a warning, othervise, it will > > > cause panic if panic_on_warn is enable. > > > > Wow! How do you manage that? You need something like a 1024x1024 text > > screen to get such a big memory allocation. > > ioctl(VT_RESIZE) allows up to 32767x32767, unprivileged for a local user. > That's 4GB per console.
Right. And that's ridiculous. This ought to be limited to something much saner.
Nicolas
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