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| author | Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> | 2012-03-07 04:50:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> | 2012-03-15 14:14:33 -0500 |
| commit | ad650f5b27bc9858360b42aaa0d9204d16115316 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f21fe0fe1589c7cbcbc422f7d4ffcc4cf57bb74 /fs | |
| parent | 6eb2466036358078aed9a65d702cbc97baf0ce65 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ad650f5b27bc9858360b42aaa0d9204d16115316.tar.bz2 | |
xfs: fallback to vmalloc for large buffers in xfs_attrmulti_attr_get
xfsdump uses for a large buffer for extended attributes, which has a
kmalloc'd shadow buffer in the kernel. This can fail after the
system has been running for some time as it is a high order
allocation. Add a fallback to vmalloc so that it doesn't require
contiguous memory and so won't randomly fail while xfsdump is
running.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c index 76f3ca5cfc36..f588320dc4b9 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c @@ -450,9 +450,12 @@ xfs_attrmulti_attr_get( if (*len > XATTR_SIZE_MAX) return EINVAL; - kbuf = kmalloc(*len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!kbuf) - return ENOMEM; + kbuf = kmem_zalloc(*len, KM_SLEEP | KM_MAYFAIL); + if (!kbuf) { + kbuf = kmem_zalloc_large(*len); + if (!kbuf) + return ENOMEM; + } error = xfs_attr_get(XFS_I(inode), name, kbuf, (int *)len, flags); if (error) @@ -462,7 +465,10 @@ xfs_attrmulti_attr_get( error = EFAULT; out_kfree: - kfree(kbuf); + if (is_vmalloc_addr(kbuf)) + kmem_free_large(kbuf); + else + kmem_free(kbuf); return error; } |