USB: usbfs: Don't WARN about excessively large memory allocations
authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tue, 18 May 2021 20:18:35 +0000 (16:18 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 21 May 2021 12:24:46 +0000 (14:24 +0200)
commit4f2629ea67e7225c3fd292c7fe4f5b3c9d6392de
tree8c10fd9f0fb99596d7bc1a344fb3b8dc270f1704
parentd07f6ca923ea0927a1024dfccafc5b53b61cfecc
USB: usbfs: Don't WARN about excessively large memory allocations

Syzbot found that the kernel generates a WARNing if the user tries to
submit a bulk transfer through usbfs with a buffer that is way too
large.  This isn't a bug in the kernel; it's merely an invalid request
from the user and the usbfs code does handle it correctly.

In theory the same thing can happen with async transfers, or with the
packet descriptor table for isochronous transfers.

To prevent the MM subsystem from complaining about these bad
allocation requests, add the __GFP_NOWARN flag to the kmalloc calls
for these buffers.

CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+882a85c0c8ec4a3e2281@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210518201835.GA1140918@rowland.harvard.edu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/usb/core/devio.c