Re: [PATCH] module: Remove module size limit

[Sasha Levin]

Rusty,

I'm not sure why git forgot to add the 'From' line, but if you do merge
it please add:

From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 23:07 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 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: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tim Abbott <tim.abbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/module.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index 2c93276..3d56b6f 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -2380,8 +2380,7 @@ 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) {


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Sasha.

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