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[48/50] netfilter: x_tables: avoid warn and OOM killer on vmalloc call

Message ID 1481147576-5690-49-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Pablo Neira Ayuso Dec. 7, 2016, 9:52 p.m. UTC 
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>

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>
---
 net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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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;
 	}