The size of the buffer that is used to store DASD statistics input
strings depends on the user input. If the input string is to large,
the write operation could fail with -ENOMEM. To avoid this, use
vmalloc instead of kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <asm/ccwdev.h>
#include <asm/ebcdic.h>
{
char *buffer;
- buffer = kmalloc(user_len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buffer = vmalloc(user_len + 1);
if (buffer == NULL)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
if (copy_from_user(buffer, user_buf, user_len) != 0) {
- kfree(buffer);
+ vfree(buffer);
return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
}
/* got the string, now strip linefeed. */
dasd_profile_off(prof);
} else
rc = -EINVAL;
- kfree(buffer);
+ vfree(buffer);
return rc;
}
dasd_global_profile_level = DASD_PROFILE_OFF;
} else
rc = -EINVAL;
- kfree(buffer);
+ vfree(buffer);
return rc;
}
pr_info("The statistics have been reset\n");
} else
goto out_parse_error;
- kfree(buffer);
+ vfree(buffer);
return user_len;
out_parse_error:
rc = -EINVAL;
pr_warning("%s is not a supported value for /proc/dasd/statistics\n",
str);
out_error:
- kfree(buffer);
+ vfree(buffer);
return rc;
#else
pr_warning("/proc/dasd/statistics: is not activated in this kernel\n");