From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Upstream commit: ad650f5b27bc9858360b42aaa0d9204d16115316 xfsdump uses for a large buffer for extended attributes, which has a kmalloc'd shadow buffer in the kernel. This can fail after the system has been running for some time as it is a high order allocation. Add a fallback to vmalloc so that it doesn't require contiguous memory and so won't randomly fail while xfsdump is running. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c index acca2c5..ada7da9 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c @@ -450,9 +450,12 @@ xfs_attrmulti_attr_get( if (*len > XATTR_SIZE_MAX) return EINVAL; - kbuf = kmalloc(*len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!kbuf) - return ENOMEM; + kbuf = kmem_zalloc(*len, KM_SLEEP | KM_MAYFAIL); + if (!kbuf) { + kbuf = kmem_zalloc_large(*len); + if (!kbuf) + return ENOMEM; + } error = xfs_attr_get(XFS_I(inode), name, kbuf, (int *)len, flags); if (error) @@ -462,7 +465,10 @@ xfs_attrmulti_attr_get( error = EFAULT; out_kfree: - kfree(kbuf); + if (is_vmalloc_addr(kbuf)) + kmem_free_large(kbuf); + else + kmem_free(kbuf); return error; } -- 1.7.10 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs