Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy.

From: Steinar H. Gunderson
Date: Wed Feb 24 2016 - 14:33:12 EST


On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 02:30:08PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> I'm seeing the following warning while fuzzing:
> [ 1595.188189] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 26063 at mm/page_alloc.c:3207 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x960/0x29e0()
> [ 1595.188287] Modules linked in:
> [ 1595.188316] CPU: 3 PID: 26063 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 4.5.0-rc5-next-20160223-sasha-00022-g03b30f1-dirty #2982

I think it was already established that one could cause kernel warnings if
trying to allocate large amounts of memory, but that the usbfs memory limits
could curb truly dangerous amounts. Someone please correct me if I'm
misunderstanding?

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