On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:44:19AM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> The backport of d35c99ff77ec ("netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from
> netlink_dump()") to the 4.4 branch (first in 4.4.32) mistakenly removed
> direct claim from the initial large allocation _and_ the fallback
> allocation which means that allocations can spuriously fail.
> Fix the issue by adding back the direct reclaim flag to the fallback
> allocation.
>
> Fixes: 6d123f1d396b ("netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from netlink_dump()")
> Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Note that this is only for the 4.4 branch as the regression is only in
> this branch. Consequently, there is no corresponding upstream commit.
>
> I'm resending this to the linux-stable list since I now understand the
> netdev maintainer only handles backports for the last couple of versions
> of Linux.
>
Many thanks for this fix, now queued up.
greg k-h