linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: Fix a possible warning in privcmd_ioctl_mmap

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Message-ID: <42cd5af5-b2fd-59ad-7de7-f14e2facac28@suse.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Dec 2022 09:55:50 +0100
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com>
Cc:     error27@...il.com, harshit.m.mogalapalli@...il.com,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>,
        Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/privcmd: Fix a possible warning in
 privcmd_ioctl_mmap_resource()

On 26.11.22 06:07, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
> As 'kdata.num' is user-controlled data, if user tries to allocate
> memory larger than(>=) MAX_ORDER, then kcalloc() will fail, it
> creates a stack trace and messes up dmesg with a warning.
> 
> Call trace:
> -> privcmd_ioctl
> --> privcmd_ioctl_mmap_resource
> 
> Add __GFP_NOWARN in order to avoid too large allocation warning.
> This is detected by static analysis using smatch.
> 
> Fixes: 3ad0876554ca ("xen/privcmd: add IOCTL_PRIVCMD_MMAP_RESOURCE")
> Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>


Juergen

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