4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Michal Hocko mhocko@kernel.org
commit 476accbe2f6ef69caeebe99f52a286e12ac35aee upstream.
There is a strange __GFP_NOMEMALLOC usage pattern in SELinux, specifically GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC which doesn't make much sense. GFP_ATOMIC on its own allows to access memory reserves while __GFP_NOMEMALLOC dictates we cannot use memory reserves. Replace this with the much more sane GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC code as we can tolerate memory allocation failures in that code.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@kernel.org Acked-by: Mel Gorman mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Paul Moore paul@paul-moore.com Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir amit.pundir@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- security/selinux/avc.c | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c +++ b/security/selinux/avc.c @@ -348,27 +348,26 @@ static struct avc_xperms_decision_node struct avc_xperms_decision_node *xpd_node; struct extended_perms_decision *xpd;
- xpd_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_decision_cachep, - GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + xpd_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_decision_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT); if (!xpd_node) return NULL;
xpd = &xpd_node->xpd; if (which & XPERMS_ALLOWED) { xpd->allowed = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep, - GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + GFP_NOWAIT); if (!xpd->allowed) goto error; } if (which & XPERMS_AUDITALLOW) { xpd->auditallow = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep, - GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + GFP_NOWAIT); if (!xpd->auditallow) goto error; } if (which & XPERMS_DONTAUDIT) { xpd->dontaudit = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep, - GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + GFP_NOWAIT); if (!xpd->dontaudit) goto error; } @@ -396,8 +395,7 @@ static struct avc_xperms_node *avc_xperm { struct avc_xperms_node *xp_node;
- xp_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_cachep, - GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + xp_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT); if (!xp_node) return xp_node; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&xp_node->xpd_head); @@ -550,7 +548,7 @@ static struct avc_node *avc_alloc_node(v { struct avc_node *node;
- node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT); if (!node) goto out;