[PATCH] proc: use vmalloc for our kernel buffer

[Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since

  sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

we have been pre-allocating a buffer to copy the data from the proc
handlers into, and then copying that to userspace.  The problem is this
just blind kmalloc()'s the buffer size passed in from the read, which in
the case of our 'cat' binary was 64kib.  Order-4 allocations are not
awesome, and since we can potentially allocate up to our maximum order,
use vmalloc for these buffers.

Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index d2018f70d1fa..070d2df8ab9c 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
 	error = -ENOMEM;
 	if (count >= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
 		goto out;
-	kbuf = kzalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	kbuf = kvzalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!kbuf)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
 
 	error = count;
 out_free_buf:
-	kfree(kbuf);
+	kvfree(kbuf);
 out:
 	sysctl_head_finish(head);
 
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