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authorDave Jones2012-04-05 14:25:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2012-04-05 15:25:50 -0700
commit703bf2d122c95412a30f72658c53ad6292867b0b (patch)
treea949f0f54df7e1e2aed731a1be9a536c4d16287e
parentb82c32872db20667d6ee8e2ea1e7bdec791bdcc7 (diff)
fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()
This size is user controllable, up to a maximum of XATTR_LIST_MAX (64k). So it's trivial for someone to trigger a stream of order:4 page allocation errors. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index d6dfd247bb2f..a14d842ccb21 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ listxattr(struct dentry *d, char __user *list, size_t size)
if (size) {
if (size > XATTR_LIST_MAX)
size = XATTR_LIST_MAX;
- klist = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ klist = kmalloc(size, __GFP_NOWARN | GFP_KERNEL);
if (!klist)
return -ENOMEM;
}