4.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Michal Hocko mhocko@kernel.org
commit 0537250fdc6c876ed4cbbe874c739aebef493ee2 upstream.
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@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Fixes: eacd86ca3b03 ("net/netfilter/x_tables.c: use kvmalloc() in xt_alloc_tableLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130140104.GE21609@dhcp22.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Acked-by: Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1008,7 +1008,12 @@ struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_inf 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;