Re: [PATCH] drm/panfrost: Avoid user size passed to kvmalloc()

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On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:49:53PM -0500, Alyssa Rosenzweig wrote:
> > This provides an easy method for user
> > space to trigger the OOM killer (by temporarily allocating large amounts
> > of kernel memory)
> 
> panfrost user space has a lot of easy ways to trigger to the OOM killer
> unfortunately .... if this is something we want to fix there are a lot
> more patches coming :(

My static checker is only looking at the new rule that kvmalloc() can't
allocate more than 2GB.  But eventually syzbot will figure out how to
trigger the other OOMs so fixing that is going to be a requirement at
some point.

regards,
dan carpenter



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