From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 15:13:26 +0000 (+0200) Subject: net: graceful exit from netif_alloc_netdev_queues() X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d339727c2b1a10f25e6636670ab6e1841170e328;p=linux-beck.git 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 --- 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) {