From: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit 5d26cff5bdbebdf98ba48217c078ff102536f134 ]
George reports that altnames can eat up kernel memory. We should charge that memory appropriately.
Reported-by: George Shuklin george.shuklin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 2fb8eb6791e8..9c9ad3d4b766 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -3658,7 +3658,7 @@ static int rtnl_alt_ifname(int cmd, struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *attr, if (err) return err;
- alt_ifname = nla_strdup(attr, GFP_KERNEL); + alt_ifname = nla_strdup(attr, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); if (!alt_ifname) return -ENOMEM;