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authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>2018-04-25 20:12:31 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-04-25 15:03:44 +0200
commitbcdd0ca8cb8730573afebcaae4138f8f4c8eaa20 (patch)
treeb022d1770f2ab76607c0071636e2012daa678cdb /drivers/tty
parent66dd99c2033684169f04068f66c7f83f7da229b8 (diff)
tty: Use __GFP_NOFAIL for tty_ldisc_get()
syzbot is reporting crashes triggered by memory allocation fault injection at tty_ldisc_get() [1]. As an attempt to handle OOM in a graceful way, we have tried commit 5362544bebe85071 ("tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()"). But we reverted that attempt by commit a8983d01f9b7d600 ("Revert "tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()"") due to reproducible crash. We should spend resource for finding and fixing race condition bugs rather than complicate error paths for 2 * sizeof(void *) bytes allocation failure. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=489d33fa386453859ead58ff5171d43772b13aa3 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+40b7287c2dc987c48c81@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
index 8a88a7787cfe..fb7329ab2b37 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
@@ -176,12 +176,11 @@ static struct tty_ldisc *tty_ldisc_get(struct tty_struct *tty, int disc)
return ERR_CAST(ldops);
}
- ld = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tty_ldisc), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (ld == NULL) {
- put_ldops(ldops);
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- }
-
+ /*
+ * There is no way to handle allocation failure of only 16 bytes.
+ * Let's simplify error handling and save more memory.
+ */
+ ld = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tty_ldisc), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
ld->ops = ldops;
ld->tty = tty;