+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Verify that no more than half of memory will be consumed. If the
+ * request from userspace is too large, a large amount of time will be
+ * wasted allocating pages, which can cause a soft lockup.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++) {
+ if (PAGE_COUNT(image->segment[i].memsz) > totalram_pages / 2)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ total_pages += PAGE_COUNT(image->segment[i].memsz);