From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5d26cff5bdbebdf98ba48217c078ff102536f134 ] George reports that altnames can eat up kernel memory. We should charge that memory appropriately. Reported-by: George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 8b5c5703d758..6a7883ec0489 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -3637,7 +3637,7 @@ static int rtnl_alt_ifname(int cmd, struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *attr, if (err) return err; - alt_ifname = nla_strdup(attr, GFP_KERNEL); + alt_ifname = nla_strdup(attr, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); if (!alt_ifname) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.35.1
