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Commit 6133a5c1 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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net: graceful exit from netif_alloc_netdev_queues()

[ Upstream commit d339727c ]

User space can crash kernel with

ip link add ifb10 numtxqueues 100000 type ifb

We must replace a BUG_ON() by proper test and return -EINVAL for
crazy values.

Fixes: 60877a32

 ("net: allow large number of tx queues")
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 1742bfe8
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