Re: [patch] crypto: ccp - Avoid page allocation failure warning for SEV_GET_ID2
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Jan 06 2023 - 10:20:34 EST
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 02:18:46PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> For SEV_GET_ID2, the user provided length does not have a specified
> limitation because the length of the ID may change in the future. The
> kernel memory allocation, however, is implicitly limited to 4MB on x86 by
> the page allocator, otherwise the kzalloc() will fail.
>
> When this happens, it is best not to spam the kernel log with the warning.
> Simply fail the allocation and return ENOMEM to the user.
>
> Fixes: d6112ea0cb34 ("crypto: ccp - introduce SEV_GET_ID2 command")
> Reported-by: Andy Nguyen <theflow@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Peter Gonda <pgonda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Patch applied. Thanks.
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