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| author | Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> | 2012-07-30 14:39:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-30 17:25:11 -0700 |
| commit | 779302e67835fe9a6b74327e54969ba59cb3478a (patch) | |
| tree | 1e808fa81616ddf170879652f86e3d755694af81 /fs | |
| parent | 32b4560b04af6e4fee241ea6de6db780eaf354f2 (diff) | |
fs/xattr.c:getxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures
This allocation can be as large as 64k.
- Add __GFP_NOWARN so the falied kmalloc() is silent
- Fall back to vmalloc() if the kmalloc() failed
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xattr.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c index 1d7ac379045..4d45b7189e7 100644 --- a/fs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/xattr.c @@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void __user *value, { ssize_t error; void *kvalue = NULL; + void *vvalue = NULL; char kname[XATTR_NAME_MAX + 1]; error = strncpy_from_user(kname, name, sizeof(kname)); @@ -438,9 +439,13 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void __user *value, if (size) { if (size > XATTR_SIZE_MAX) size = XATTR_SIZE_MAX; - kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!kvalue) - return -ENOMEM; + kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN); + if (!kvalue) { + vvalue = vmalloc(size); + if (!vvalue) + return -ENOMEM; + kvalue = vvalue; + } } error = vfs_getxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size); @@ -452,7 +457,10 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void __user *value, than XATTR_SIZE_MAX bytes. Not possible. */ error = -E2BIG; } - kfree(kvalue); + if (vvalue) + vfree(vvalue); + else + kfree(kvalue); return error; } |