Re: [PATCH 2/2] diskfilter: don't make a RAID array with more than 1024 disks

[Daniel Axtens]

Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> writes:

> This is 'belt and braces' with the last fix: we end up trying to use
> too much memory in situations like corrupted Linux software raid setups
> purporting to usew a huge number of disks. Simply refuse to permit such
> configurations.
>
> 1024 is a bit arbitrary, yes, and I feel a bit like I'm tempting fate
> here, but I think 1024 disks in an array (that grub has to read to boot!)
> should be enough for anyone.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
> ---
>  grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c b/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c
> index 4ac50320ef4e..79c5f4db940a 100644
> --- a/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c
> +++ b/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c
> @@ -1046,6 +1046,13 @@ grub_diskfilter_make_raid (grub_size_t uuidlen, char 
> *uuid, int nmemb,
>    struct grub_diskfilter_pv *pv;
>    grub_err_t err;
>  
> +  /* We choose not to support more than 1024 disks */
> +  if (nmemb > 1024)

Ergh, nmemb is an int; I will do a v2 that also checks that it's greater
than 0 (or 1, given that it's RAID? I will do some tests.)

-- d