Instead of triggering a WARN_ON deep down in the page allocator just give up early on allocations that are way larger than the usual sysctl values. Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler") Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index df2143e05c571e..08c33bd1642dcd 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -564,6 +564,10 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct file *filp, void __user *ubuf, if (!table->proc_handler) goto out; + /* don't even try if the size is too large */ + if (count > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) + return -ENOMEM; + if (write) { kbuf = memdup_user_nul(ubuf, count); if (IS_ERR(kbuf)) { -- 2.26.2