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authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>2006-12-06 23:33:06 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-07 11:39:23 -0500
commit5d1854e15ee979f8e27330f0d3ce5e2703afa1dc (patch)
tree8aff9641966020284218f2cdd75fd3b7bfc2babc /mm/vmstat.c
parent4af2bfc1202041006a0f01d0591a975f6c573f09 (diff)
[PATCH] reject corrupt swapfiles earlier
The fsfuzzer found this; with a corrupt small swapfile that claims to have many pages: [root]# file swap.741.img swap.741.img: Linux/i386 swap file (new style) 1 (4K pages) size 1040191487 pages [root]# ls -l swap.741.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16777216 Nov 22 05:18 swap.741.img sys_swapon() will try to vmalloc all those pages, and -then- check to see if the file is actually that large: if (!(p->swap_map = vmalloc(maxpages * sizeof(short)))) { <snip> if (swapfilesize && maxpages > swapfilesize) { printk(KERN_WARNING "Swap area shorter than signature indicates\n"); It seems to me that it would make more sense to move this test up before the vmalloc, with the other checks, to avoid the OOM-killer in this situation... Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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