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module: Remove module size limit
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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>
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Sasha Levin authored and Rusty Russell committed Mar 26, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -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) {
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