Re: [PATCH v4 4/9] epoll: Add implementation for epoll_ctl_batch

[Dan Rosenberg]

On 03/09/2015 09:49 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> +	if (!cmds || ncmds <= 0 || ncmds > EP_MAX_BATCH)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	cmd_size = sizeof(struct epoll_ctl_cmd) * ncmds;
> +	/* TODO: optimize for small arguments like select/poll with a stack
> +	 * allocated buffer */
> +
> +	kcmds = kmalloc(cmd_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!kcmds)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
You probably want to define EP_MAX_BATCH as some sane value much less
than INT_MAX/(sizeof(struct epoll_ctl_cmd)). While this avoids the
integer overflow from before, any user can cause the kernel to kmalloc
up to INT_MAX bytes. Probably not a huge deal because it's freed at the
end of the syscall, but generally not a great idea.

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