proc: use kvzalloc for our kernel buffer
authorJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:20:49 +0000 (17:20 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:41:03 +0000 (09:41 -0800)
commit4508943794efdd94171549c0bd52810e2f4ad9fe
tree6b6930dc88e157d4210ac4b2396816420f800ed1
parent152c432b128cb043fc107e8f211195fe94b2159c
proc: use kvzalloc for our kernel buffer

Since

  sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

we have been pre-allocating a buffer to copy the data from the proc
handlers into, and then copying that to userspace.  The problem is this
just blindly kzalloc()'s the buffer size passed in from the read, which in
the case of our 'cat' binary was 64kib.  Order-4 allocations are not
awesome, and since we can potentially allocate up to our maximum order, so
use kvzalloc for these buffers.

[willy@infradead.org: changelog tweaks]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6345270a2c1160b89dd5e6715461f388176899d1.1612972413.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c