From d339727c2b1a10f25e6636670ab6e1841170e328 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 17:13:26 +0200 Subject: net: graceful exit from netif_alloc_netdev_queues() 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 6778a9999d52..0ad626214332 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -6409,7 +6409,8 @@ 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) { -- cgit v1.2.3