Re: [PATCH] crypto: ccp - Limit memory allocation in SEV_GET_ID2 ioctl

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 05:42:31PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:

The goal was to be more explicit about that, but setting __GFP_NOWARN would result in the same functional behavior. If we're to go that route, it would likely be best to add a comment about the limitation.

That said, if AMD would prefer this to be an EINVAL instead of a ENOMEM by introducing a more formal limitation on the length that can be used, that would be preferred so that we don't need to rely on the page allocator's max length to enforce this arbitrarily.

Ideally the limit should be set according to the object that you're trying to allocate. But if that is truly unlimited, and you don't want to see a warning, then GFP_NOWARN seems to fit the bill.

Thanks,