On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 at 10:04, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But given that vmalloc() already supports > INT_MAX requests, and memory
> sizes keep growing so 2GB is getting pretty small - I think it's time,
> this is going to come up in other places sooner or later.
No.
If you need 2GB+ memory for filesystem operations, you fix your code.
2GB is more than you *can* allocate on 32-bit platforms, and even on
64-bit ones it is often quite a lot.
So even aside from the *fact* of integer overflows, that check isn't going away.
Linus
