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authorMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>2016-12-02 07:46:38 -0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2016-12-07 13:31:41 +0100
commit5bad87348c70bb4d36e876523aade31e9dedd2fc (patch)
tree85979f9b3631a7cde6add79a502ba4e36a344071 /net
parent8411b6442e59810fe0750a2f321b9dcb7d0a3d17 (diff)
netfilter: x_tables: avoid warn and OOM killer on vmalloc call
Andrey Konovalov reported that this vmalloc call is based on an userspace request and that it's spewing traces, which may flood the logs and cause DoS if abused. Florian Westphal also mentioned that this call should not trigger OOM killer. This patch brings the vmalloc call in sync to kmalloc and disables the warn trace on allocation failure and also disable OOM killer invocation. Note, however, that under such stress situation, other places may trigger OOM killer invocation. Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/x_tables.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
index f6ce4a7036e6..2ff499680cc6 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
@@ -959,7 +959,9 @@ struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_info(unsigned int size)
if (sz <= (PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
info = kmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
if (!info) {
- info = vmalloc(sz);
+ info = __vmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN |
+ __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_HIGHMEM,
+ PAGE_KERNEL);
if (!info)
return NULL;
}