proc: use kvzalloc for our kernel buffer

Since

  sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

we have been pre-allocating a buffer to copy the data from the proc
handlers into, and then copying that to userspace.  The problem is this
just blindly kzalloc()'s the buffer size passed in from the read, which in
the case of our 'cat' binary was 64kib.  Order-4 allocations are not
awesome, and since we can potentially allocate up to our maximum order, so
use kvzalloc for these buffers.

[[email protected]: changelog tweaks]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6345270a2c1160b89dd5e6715461f388176899d1.1612972413.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
Fixes: 32927393dc ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
CC: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Josef Bacik authored and Linus Torvalds committed 2021-02-26 09:41:03 -08:00
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@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
error = -ENOMEM;
if (count >= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
goto out;
kbuf = kzalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
kbuf = kvzalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!kbuf)
goto out;
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
error = count;
out_free_buf:
kfree(kbuf);
kvfree(kbuf);
out:
sysctl_head_finish(head);