Patch "module: Remove module size limit" has been added to the 3.0-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

module: Remove module size limit

to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
module-remove-module-size-limit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:07:22 -0500
Subject: module: Remove module size limit

From: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>

commit f946eeb9313ff1470758e171a60fe7438a2ded3f upstream.

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.

---
 kernel/module.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -2290,8 +2290,7 @@ static int copy_and_check(struct load_in
 		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) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.0/math-introduce-div64_long.patch queue-3.0/ntp-fix-integer-overflow-when-setting-time.patch queue-3.0/slub-do-not-hold-slub_lock-when-calling-sysfs_slab_add.patch queue-3.0/module-remove-module-size-limit.patch