Commit 37252db6 authored by Jiri Kosina's avatar Jiri Kosina Committed by Rusty Russell

kmod: prevent kmod_loop_msg overflow in __request_module()

Due to post-increment in condition of kmod_loop_msg in __request_module(),
the system log can be spammed by much more than 5 instances of the 'runaway
loop' message if the number of events triggering it makes the kmod_loop_msg
to overflow.

Fix that by making sure we never increment it past the threshold.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: stable@kernel.org
parent c3b92c87
......@@ -114,10 +114,12 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
atomic_inc(&kmod_concurrent);
if (atomic_read(&kmod_concurrent) > max_modprobes) {
/* We may be blaming an innocent here, but unlikely */
if (kmod_loop_msg++ < 5)
if (kmod_loop_msg < 5) {
printk(KERN_ERR
"request_module: runaway loop modprobe %s\n",
module_name);
kmod_loop_msg++;
}
atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent);
return -ENOMEM;
}
......
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