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authorJunaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>2017-05-18 12:00:51 -0700
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2017-05-22 19:30:03 -0400
commit8c1e2162f27b319da913683143c0c6c09b083ebb (patch)
tree1b890d720aba77344c49cb306a469dae44ce1ac0 /drivers/md
parent702a6204f804bad946c455e7cd8d50d79c9d1629 (diff)
dm ioctl: restore __GFP_HIGH in copy_params()
Commit d224e9381897 ("drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c: use kvmalloc rather than opencoded variant") left out the __GFP_HIGH flag when converting from __vmalloc to kvmalloc. This can cause the DM ioctl to fail in some low memory situations where it wouldn't have failed earlier. Add __GFP_HIGH back to avoid any potential regression. Fixes: d224e9381897 ("drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c: use kvmalloc rather than opencoded variant") Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index 0555b4410e05..41852ae287a5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -1710,12 +1710,13 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl __user *user, struct dm_ioctl *param_kern
}
/*
- * Try to avoid low memory issues when a device is suspended.
+ * Use __GFP_HIGH to avoid low memory issues when a device is
+ * suspended and the ioctl is needed to resume it.
* Use kmalloc() rather than vmalloc() when we can.
*/
dmi = NULL;
noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
- dmi = kvmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ dmi = kvmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
if (!dmi) {