fs/xattr.c:getxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures
This allocation can be as large as 64k.
- Add __GFP_NOWARN so the falied kmalloc() is silent
- Fall back to vmalloc() if the kmalloc() failed
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 1d7ac37..4d45b71 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -427,6 +427,7 @@
{
ssize_t error;
void *kvalue = NULL;
+ void *vvalue = NULL;
char kname[XATTR_NAME_MAX + 1];
error = strncpy_from_user(kname, name, sizeof(kname));
@@ -438,9 +439,13 @@
if (size) {
if (size > XATTR_SIZE_MAX)
size = XATTR_SIZE_MAX;
- kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!kvalue)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
+ if (!kvalue) {
+ vvalue = vmalloc(size);
+ if (!vvalue)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ kvalue = vvalue;
+ }
}
error = vfs_getxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size);
@@ -452,7 +457,10 @@
than XATTR_SIZE_MAX bytes. Not possible. */
error = -E2BIG;
}
- kfree(kvalue);
+ if (vvalue)
+ vfree(vvalue);
+ else
+ kfree(kvalue);
return error;
}