This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled module: Remove module size limit
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: module-remove-module-size-limit.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From f946eeb9313ff1470758e171a60fe7438a2ded3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:07:22 -0500 Subject: module: Remove module size limit From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha...@gmail.com> 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.abb...@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- kernel/module.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2290,8 +2290,7 @@ static int copy_and_check(struct load_in 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) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from levinsasha...@gmail.com are queue-3.0/math-introduce-div64_long.patch queue-3.0/ntp-fix-integer-overflow-when-setting-time.patch queue-3.0/slub-do-not-hold-slub_lock-when-calling-sysfs_slab_add.patch queue-3.0/module-remove-module-size-limit.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html