This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rpc: let xdr layer allocate gssproxy receieve pages to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rpc-let-xdr-layer-allocate-gssproxy-receieve-pages.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d4a516560fc96a9d486a9939bcb567e3fdce8f49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:26:28 -0400 Subject: rpc: let xdr layer allocate gssproxy receieve pages From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d4a516560fc96a9d486a9939bcb567e3fdce8f49 upstream. In theory the linux cred in a gssproxy reply can include up to NGROUPS_MAX data, 256K of data. In the common case we expect it to be shorter. So do as the nfsv3 ACL code does and let the xdr code allocate the pages as they come in, instead of allocating a lot of pages that won't typically be used. Tested-by: Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_upcall.c | 16 ++++++---------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_upcall.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_upcall.c @@ -223,18 +223,14 @@ static void gssp_free_receive_pages(stru static int gssp_alloc_receive_pages(struct gssx_arg_accept_sec_context *arg) { - int i; - arg->npages = DIV_ROUND_UP(NGROUPS_MAX * 4, PAGE_SIZE); arg->pages = kzalloc(arg->npages * sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL); - - for (i=0; i < arg->npages; i++) { - arg->pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL); - if (arg->pages[i] == NULL) { - gssp_free_receive_pages(arg); - return -ENOMEM; - } - } + /* + * XXX: actual pages are allocated by xdr layer in + * xdr_partial_copy_from_skb. + */ + if (!arg->pages) + return -ENOMEM; return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bfields@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/rpc-clean-up-decoding-of-gssproxy-linux-creds.patch queue-3.10/rpc-let-xdr-layer-allocate-gssproxy-receieve-pages.patch queue-3.10/rpc-comment-on-linux_cred-encoding-treat-all-as-unsigned.patch queue-3.10/rpc-fix-huge-kmalloc-s-in-gss-proxy.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html