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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drm/panfrost: Avoid user size passed to kvmalloc()
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 10:16 AM Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> wrote:
>
> panfrost_copy_in_sync() takes the number of fences from user space
> (in_sync_count) and used to kvmalloc() an array to hold that number of
> fences before processing them. This provides an easy method for user
> space to trigger the OOM killer (by temporarily allocating large amounts
> of kernel memory) or hit the WARN_ONCE() added by 7661809d493b ("mm:
> don't allow oversized kvmalloc() calls").
>
> Since we don't expect there to be a large number of fences we can
> instead iterate over the fences one-by-one and avoid the temporary
> allocation altogether. This also makes the code simpler.

Doesn't the BO lookup suffer from the same issue?

Rob

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