From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit d339727c2b1a10f25e6636670ab6e1841170e328 ] User space can crash kernel with ip link add ifb10 numtxqueues 100000 type ifb We must replace a BUG_ON() by proper test and return -EINVAL for crazy values. Fixes: 60877a32bce00 ("net: allow large number of tx queues") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- net/core/dev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 3ca487e14080..5a407f0f1c2d 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5559,7 +5559,8 @@ static int netif_alloc_netdev_queues(struct net_device *dev) struct netdev_queue *tx; size_t sz = count * sizeof(*tx); - BUG_ON(count < 1 || count > 0xffff); + if (count < 1 || count > 0xffff) + return -EINVAL; tx = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT); if (!tx) { -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html