The "bufsize" comes from the root user. If "bufsize" is negative then, because of type promotion, neither of the validation checks at the start of the function are able to catch it: if (bufsize < sizeof(struct xfs_attrlist) || bufsize > XFS_XATTR_LIST_MAX) return -EINVAL; This means "bufsize" will trigger (WARN_ON_ONCE(size > INT_MAX)) in kvmalloc_node(). Fix this by changing the type from int to size_t. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- It's sort of hard to figure out which Fixes tag to use... Maybe: Fixes: 7661809d493b ("mm: don't allow oversized kvmalloc() calls") so it gets backported to the kernels which have the warning? fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.h | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c index 174cd8950cb6..29231a8c8a45 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ int xfs_ioc_attr_list( struct xfs_inode *dp, void __user *ubuf, - int bufsize, + size_t bufsize, int flags, struct xfs_attrlist_cursor __user *ucursor) { diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.h index 28453a6d4461..845d3bcab74b 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.h +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.h @@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ xfs_readlink_by_handle( int xfs_ioc_attrmulti_one(struct file *parfilp, struct inode *inode, uint32_t opcode, void __user *uname, void __user *value, uint32_t *len, uint32_t flags); -int xfs_ioc_attr_list(struct xfs_inode *dp, void __user *ubuf, int bufsize, - int flags, struct xfs_attrlist_cursor __user *ucursor); +int xfs_ioc_attr_list(struct xfs_inode *dp, void __user *ubuf, + size_t bufsize, int flags, + struct xfs_attrlist_cursor __user *ucursor); extern struct dentry * xfs_handle_to_dentry( -- 2.20.1