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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c index b428c295d13f..5778d1347b35 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c @@ -288,10 +288,13 @@ struct fanotify_event *fanotify_alloc_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, /* * For queues with unlimited length lost events are not expected and * can possibly have security implications. Avoid losing events when - * memory is short. + * memory is short. For the limited size queues, avoid OOM killer in the + * target monitoring memcg as it may have security repercussion. */ if (group->max_events == UINT_MAX) gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL; + else + gfp |= __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL; /* Whoever is interested in the event, pays for the allocation. */ memalloc_use_memcg(group->memcg); diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c index 2fda08b2b885..d510223d302c 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c @@ -90,9 +90,13 @@ int inotify_handle_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, i_mark = container_of(inode_mark, struct inotify_inode_mark, fsn_mark); - /* Whoever is interested in the event, pays for the allocation. */ + /* + * Whoever is interested in the event, pays for the allocation. Do not + * trigger OOM killer in the target monitoring memcg as it may have + * security repercussion. + */ memalloc_use_memcg(group->memcg); - event = kmalloc(alloc_len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); + event = kmalloc(alloc_len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); memalloc_unuse_memcg(); if (unlikely(!event)) { |