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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2017-05-08 15:57:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-08 17:15:13 -0700
commitd224e938189771dbd1e3b68ee8603a949bee76bb (patch)
treea1421bda5284b52c06f02970912bf920a405f8e4 /drivers
parentda6bc57a8f02dd90d07071b4cd067f2de26c9192 (diff)
drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c: use kvmalloc rather than opencoded variant
copy_params uses kmalloc with vmalloc fallback. We already have a helper for that - kvmalloc. This caller requires GFP_NOIO semantic so it hasn't been converted with many others by previous patches. All we need to achieve this semantic is to use the scope memalloc_noio_{save,restore} around kvmalloc. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-4-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c13
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index 2d5d7064acbf..0555b4410e05 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -1691,6 +1691,7 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl __user *user, struct dm_ioctl *param_kern
struct dm_ioctl *dmi;
int secure_data;
const size_t minimum_data_size = offsetof(struct dm_ioctl, data);
+ unsigned noio_flag;
if (copy_from_user(param_kernel, user, minimum_data_size))
return -EFAULT;
@@ -1713,15 +1714,9 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl __user *user, struct dm_ioctl *param_kern
* Use kmalloc() rather than vmalloc() when we can.
*/
dmi = NULL;
- if (param_kernel->data_size <= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
- dmi = kmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
-
- if (!dmi) {
- unsigned noio_flag;
- noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
- dmi = __vmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH | __GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL);
- memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
- }
+ noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
+ dmi = kvmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
if (!dmi) {
if (secure_data && clear_user(user, param_kernel->data_size))