redonkable
/
alistair23-linux
1
0
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

module: Remove module size limit 

Module size was limited to 64MB, this was legacy limitation due to vmalloc()
which was removed a while ago.

Limiting module size to 64MB is both pointless and affects real world use
cases.

Cc: Tim Abbott <tim.abbott@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Sasha Levin 2012-01-30 23:07:22 -05:00 committed by Rusty Russell
parent d53799be67
commit f946eeb931
1 changed files with 1 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

3
kernel/module.c
View File

@ -2411,8 +2411,7 @@ static int copy_and_check(struct load_info *info,
return -ENOEXEC;
/* Suck in entire file: we'll want most of it. */
/* vmalloc barfs on "unusual" numbers. Check here */
if (len > 64 * 1024 * 1024 || (hdr = vmalloc(len)) == NULL)
if ((hdr = vmalloc(len)) == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
if (copy_from_user(hdr, umod, len) != 0) {