Re: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 52 at mm/page_alloc.c:4826 __alloc_pages_nodemask (Re: [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler)

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 6:05 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 09:45:49AM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > Just a test case.
> >
> > Allowing the kernel to allocate an unbounded amount of memory on behalf
> > of userspace is an easy DOS.
> >
> > All the length checks were already in there, e.g.
> >
> >  static int cmm_timeout_handler(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
> >                               void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t
> > *ppos)
> >  {
> >         char buf[64], *p;
> > [...]
> >                 len = min(*lenp, sizeof(buf));
> >                 if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, len))
> >                         return -EFAULT;
>
> Doesn't help if we don't know the exact limit yet.  But we can put
> some arbitrary but reasonable limit like KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE on the
> sysctls and see if this sticks.

adding Stanislav. I think he's looking into this already.