From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> syzbot has noticed that xt_alloc_table_info can allocate a lot of memory. This is an admin only interface but an admin in a namespace is sufficient as well. eacd86ca3b03 ("net/netfilter/x_tables.c: use kvmalloc() in xt_alloc_table_info()") has changed the opencoded kmalloc->vmalloc fallback into kvmalloc. It has dropped __GFP_NORETRY on the way because vmalloc has simply never fully supported __GFP_NORETRY semantic. This is still the case because e.g. page tables backing the vmalloc area are hardcoded GFP_KERNEL. Revert back to __GFP_NORETRY as a poors man defence against excessively large allocation request here. We will not rule out the OOM killer completely but __GFP_NORETRY should at least stop the large request in most cases. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: coding-style fixes] Fixes: eacd86ca3b03 ("net/netfilter/x_tables.c: use kvmalloc() in xt_alloc_tableLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130140104.GE21609@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index 8fa4d37141a7..2f685ee1f9c8 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1008,7 +1008,12 @@ struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_info(unsigned int size) if ((size >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 2 > totalram_pages) return NULL; - info = kvmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL); + /* __GFP_NORETRY is not fully supported by kvmalloc but it should + * work reasonably well if sz is too large and bail out rather + * than shoot all processes down before realizing there is nothing + * more to reclaim. + */ + info = kvmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY); if (!info) return NULL; -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html