Shamelessly copied from dchinner's: ad650f5b xfs: fallback to vmalloc for large buffers in xfs_attrmulti_attr_get xfsdump uses 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. This was done for xfs_attrlist_by_handle but xfs_compat_attrlist_by_handle (the 32-bit version) needs the same attention. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.c index 63b8fc4..c0c6625 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.c @@ -373,9 +373,12 @@ xfs_compat_attrlist_by_handle( return PTR_ERR(dentry); error = -ENOMEM; - kbuf = kmalloc(al_hreq.buflen, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!kbuf) - goto out_dput; + kbuf = kmem_zalloc(al_hreq.buflen, KM_SLEEP | KM_MAYFAIL); + if (!kbuf) { + kbuf = kmem_zalloc_large(al_hreq.buflen); + if (!kbuf) + goto out_dput; + } cursor = (attrlist_cursor_kern_t *)&al_hreq.pos; error = -xfs_attr_list(XFS_I(dentry->d_inode), kbuf, al_hreq.buflen, @@ -387,7 +390,10 @@ xfs_compat_attrlist_by_handle( error = -EFAULT; out_kfree: - kfree(kbuf); + if (is_vmalloc_addr(kbuf)) + kmem_free_large(kbuf); + else + kmem_free(kbuf); out_dput: dput(dentry); return error; _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs