seq_file: disallow extremely large seq buffer allocations

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commit 8cae8cd89f upstream.

There is no reasonable need for a buffer larger than this, and it avoids
int overflow pitfalls.

Fixes: 058504edd0 ("fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation")
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Eric Sandeen 2021-07-13 17:49:23 +02:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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