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| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index 8fa4d37141a7..2f685ee1f9c8 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1008,7 +1008,12 @@ struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_info(unsigned int size) if ((size >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 2 > totalram_pages) return NULL; - info = kvmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL); + /* __GFP_NORETRY is not fully supported by kvmalloc but it should + * work reasonably well if sz is too large and bail out rather + * than shoot all processes down before realizing there is nothing + * more to reclaim. + */ + info = kvmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY); if (!info) return NULL; |