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| author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> | 2017-08-03 10:11:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> | 2017-08-08 09:12:23 -0400 |
| commit | 476accbe2f6ef69caeebe99f52a286e12ac35aee (patch) | |
| tree | fa8f78eebbc6c5657634751906db4d445359cce5 /security | |
| parent | af63f4193f9fbbbac50fc766417d74735afd87ef (diff) | |
| download | linux-476accbe2f6ef69caeebe99f52a286e12ac35aee.tar.bz2 | |
selinux: use GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC kmem_caches
There is a strange __GFP_NOMEMALLOC usage pattern in SELinux,
specifically GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC which doesn't make much
sense. GFP_ATOMIC on its own allows to access memory reserves while
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC dictates we cannot use memory reserves. Replace this
with the much more sane GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC code as we can tolerate
memory allocation failures in that code.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/selinux/avc.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c index e60c79de13e1..52f3c550abcc 100644 --- a/security/selinux/avc.c +++ b/security/selinux/avc.c @@ -348,27 +348,26 @@ static struct avc_xperms_decision_node struct avc_xperms_decision_node *xpd_node; struct extended_perms_decision *xpd; - xpd_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_decision_cachep, - GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + xpd_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_decision_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT); if (!xpd_node) return NULL; xpd = &xpd_node->xpd; if (which & XPERMS_ALLOWED) { xpd->allowed = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep, - GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + GFP_NOWAIT); if (!xpd->allowed) goto error; } if (which & XPERMS_AUDITALLOW) { xpd->auditallow = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep, - GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + GFP_NOWAIT); if (!xpd->auditallow) goto error; } if (which & XPERMS_DONTAUDIT) { xpd->dontaudit = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep, - GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + GFP_NOWAIT); if (!xpd->dontaudit) goto error; } @@ -396,8 +395,7 @@ static struct avc_xperms_node *avc_xperms_alloc(void) { struct avc_xperms_node *xp_node; - xp_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_cachep, - GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + xp_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT); if (!xp_node) return xp_node; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&xp_node->xpd_head); @@ -550,7 +548,7 @@ static struct avc_node *avc_alloc_node(void) { struct avc_node *node; - node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT); if (!node) goto out; |