When trying to read an empty binary attribute in configfs, an OOM message is printed: vmalloc: allocation failure: 0 bytes cat: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x24000c2 CPU: 1 PID: 1731 Comm: cat Tainted: G W 4.4.0-rc1-koelsch-01576-g480a69c050d4f3ee-dirty #1977 Hardware name: Generic R8A7791 (Flattened Device Tree) [<c00173a0>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0013094>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) [<c0013094>] (show_stack) from [<c01f1f38>] (dump_stack+0x70/0x8c) [<c01f1f38>] (dump_stack) from [<c00b6930>] (warn_alloc_failed+0xe4/0x110) [<c00b6930>] (warn_alloc_failed) from [<c00dde1c>] (__vmalloc_node_range+0x1cc/0x1f0) [<c00dde1c>] (__vmalloc_node_range) from [<c00dde88>] (__vmalloc_node+0x48/0x58) [<c00dde88>] (__vmalloc_node) from [<c00ddec4>] (vmalloc+0x2c/0x3c) [<c00ddec4>] (vmalloc) from [<c0148304>] (configfs_read_bin_file+0x98/0x118) [<c0148304>] (configfs_read_bin_file) from [<c00e8a88>] (__vfs_read+0x20/0xcc) [<c00e8a88>] (__vfs_read) from [<c00e918c>] (vfs_read+0x84/0xec) [<c00e918c>] (vfs_read) from [<c00e9914>] (SyS_read+0x40/0x80) Unlike kmalloc(), vmalloc() doesn't support allocating zero bytes. Hence return early if ops->read_bin_attribute() returns zero. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 016dd7ff3c56526f ("configfs: Implement binary attributes (v5)") --- Against https://github.com/pantoniou/linux-beagle-track-mainline.git/bbb-overlays How to reproduce: - mkdir /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/dummy - cat /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/dummy/dtbo --- fs/configfs/file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/configfs/file.c b/fs/configfs/file.c index a3a3c6695fbf1950..20d59bf4737379e3 100644 --- a/fs/configfs/file.c +++ b/fs/configfs/file.c @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ configfs_read_bin_file(struct file *file, char __user *buf, /* perform first read with buf == NULL to get extent */ len = bin_attr->read(item, NULL, 0); - if (len < 0) { + if (len <= 0) { retval = len; goto out; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html