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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2019-02-20 22:20:42 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-02-21 09:01:01 -0800
commit6c8fcc096be9d02f478c508052a41a4430506ab3 (patch)
tree5de75352c94c318dc80a70a6598e09a986f9f962 /mm
parent6373dca16c911b2828ef8d836d7f6f1800e1bbbc (diff)
mm: don't let userspace spam allocations warnings
memdump_user usually gets fed unchecked userspace input. Blasting a full backtrace into dmesg every time is a bit excessive - I'm not sure on the kernel rule in general, but at least in drm we're trying not to let unpriviledge userspace spam the logs freely. Definitely not entire warning backtraces. It also means more filtering for our CI, because our testsuite exercises these corner cases and so hits these a lot. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190220204058.11676-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 1ea055138043..379319b1bcfd 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len)
{
void *p;
- p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_USER);
+ p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_USER | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!p)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);