module: Remove module size limit

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 <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
makiko-fly · Mar 26, 2012 · f946eeb · f946eeb
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commit f946eeb
Showing 1 changed file with 1 addition and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
@@ -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) {