There wasn't any check of the size passed from userspace before trying
to allocate the memory required.
This meant that userspace might request more space than allowed,
triggering an OOM.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
if (tmp.size < sizeof(tmp))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ if (tmp.size > (PATH_MAX + sizeof(tmp)))
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
+
return memdup_user(in, tmp.size);
}