From patchwork Tue Feb 20 16:38:48 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Pablo Neira Ayuso X-Patchwork-Id: 875625 X-Patchwork-Delegate: pablo@netfilter.org Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; spf=none (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=vger.kernel.org (client-ip=209.132.180.67; helo=vger.kernel.org; envelope-from=netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org; receiver=) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3zmDMF2cYRz9s3Z for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:31:21 +1100 (AEDT) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752689AbeBTQjR (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:39:17 -0500 Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:44134 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752258AbeBTQjQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:39:16 -0500 Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (unknown [192.168.2.11]) by mail.us.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2ABD396272 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:39:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antivirus1-rhel7.int (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF676DA78D for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:39:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by antivirus1-rhel7.int (Postfix, from userid 99) id D46ADDA789; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:39:14 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on antivirus1-rhel7.int X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-108.2 required=7.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50, SMTPAUTH_US2,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=disabled version=3.4.1 Received: from antivirus1-rhel7.int (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antivirus1-rhel7.int (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1ADDA2CE; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:39:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from 192.168.1.97 (192.168.1.97) by antivirus1-rhel7.int (F-Secure/fsigk_smtp/550/antivirus1-rhel7.int); Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:39:12 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Status: clean(F-Secure/fsigk_smtp/550/antivirus1-rhel7.int) Received: from salvia.here (129.166.216.87.static.jazztel.es [87.216.166.129]) (Authenticated sender: pneira@us.es) by entrada.int (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3729241E4805; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:39:12 +0100 (CET) X-SMTPAUTHUS: auth mail.us.es From: Pablo Neira Ayuso To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 01/19] netfilter: x_tables: remove size check Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:38:48 +0100 Message-Id: <20180220163906.12380-2-pablo@netfilter.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 In-Reply-To: <20180220163906.12380-1-pablo@netfilter.org> References: <20180220163906.12380-1-pablo@netfilter.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org From: Michal Hocko Back in 2002 vmalloc used to BUG on too large sizes. We are much better behaved these days and vmalloc simply returns NULL for those. Remove the check as it simply not needed and the comment is even misleading. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180131081916.GO21609@dhcp22.suse.cz Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Florian Westphal Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index 2f685ee1f9c8..97e06a04c0d4 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1004,10 +1004,6 @@ struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_info(unsigned int size) if (sz < sizeof(*info)) return NULL; - /* Pedantry: prevent them from hitting BUG() in vmalloc.c --RR */ - if ((size >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 2 > totalram_pages) - return NULL; - /* __GFP_NORETRY is not fully supported by kvmalloc but it should * work reasonably well if sz is too large and bail out rather * than shoot all processes down before realizing there is nothing