The patch titled
Subject: fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fs-xattrc-suppress-page-allocation-failure-warnings-from-sys_listxattr.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()
This size is user controllable, up to a maximum of XATTR_LIST_MAX (64k).
So it's trivial for someone to trigger a stream of order:4 page allocation
errors.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/xattr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/xattr.c~fs-xattrc-suppress-page-allocation-failure-warnings-from-sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c
--- a/fs/xattr.c~fs-xattrc-suppress-page-allocation-failure-warnings-from-sys_listxattr
+++ a/fs/xattr.c
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ listxattr(struct dentry *d, char __user
if (size) {
if (size > XATTR_LIST_MAX)
size = XATTR_LIST_MAX;
- klist = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ klist = kmalloc(size, __GFP_NOWARN | GFP_KERNEL);
if (!klist)
return -ENOMEM;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from davej@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
security-keys-keyctlc-suppress-memory-allocation-failure-warning.patch
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