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| author | Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> | 2012-01-30 23:07:22 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-04-02 09:53:07 -0700 |
| commit | c88e98e32e1709e8cd765b701dd6fdeb08612819 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b552ed82e047dc5f4ae340dcde008c7ffac838b /kernel | |
| parent | 04cf7f7a565f0d2d2f5f3be56ceb6d680cba0f71 (diff) | |
module: Remove module size limit
commit f946eeb9313ff1470758e171a60fe7438a2ded3f upstream.
Module size was limited to 64MB, this was legacy limitation due to vmalloc()
which was removed a while ago.
Limiting module size to 64MB is both pointless and affects real world use
cases.
Cc: Tim Abbott <tim.abbott@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 178333c48d1..6969ef05d2d 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2341,8 +2341,7 @@ static int copy_and_check(struct load_info *info, return -ENOEXEC; /* Suck in entire file: we'll want most of it. */ - /* vmalloc barfs on "unusual" numbers. Check here */ - if (len > 64 * 1024 * 1024 || (hdr = vmalloc(len)) == NULL) + if ((hdr = vmalloc(len)) == NULL) return -ENOMEM; if (copy_from_user(hdr, umod, len) != 0) { |