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authorSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>2012-01-31 08:07:22 +0400
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2012-03-26 06:20:53 +0400
commitf946eeb9313ff1470758e171a60fe7438a2ded3f (patch)
tree9daeca7f4230ca680765078a0b32c98df409934d /kernel/module.c
parentd53799be6758841e1ffb1fd3780f73d0ffe44432 (diff)
downloadlinux-f946eeb9313ff1470758e171a60fe7438a2ded3f.tar.xz
module: Remove module size limit
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.abbott@oracle.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 294692d8fcd8..78ac6ec1e425 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2411,8 +2411,7 @@ static int copy_and_check(struct load_info *info,
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) {