+ fs-xattrc-suppress-page-allocation-failure-warnings-from-sys_listxattr.patch added to -mm tree

+ fs-xattrc-suppress-page-allocation-failure-warnings-from-sys_listxattr.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     fs-xattrc-suppress-page-allocation-failure-warnings-from-sys_listxattr.patch

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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()

This size is user controllable, up to a maximum of XATTR_LIST_MAX (64k). 
So it's trivial for someone to trigger a stream of order:4 page allocation
errors.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/xattr.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/xattr.c~fs-xattrc-suppress-page-allocation-failure-warnings-from-sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c
--- a/fs/xattr.c~fs-xattrc-suppress-page-allocation-failure-warnings-from-sys_listxattr
+++ a/fs/xattr.c
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ listxattr(struct dentry *d, char __user 
 	if (size) {
 		if (size > XATTR_LIST_MAX)
 			size = XATTR_LIST_MAX;
-		klist = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		klist = kmalloc(size, __GFP_NOWARN | GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!klist)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
_
Subject: Subject: fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()

Patches currently in -mm which might be from davej@redhat.com are

origin.patch
linux-next.patch
fs-xattrc-suppress-page-allocation-failure-warnings-from-sys_listxattr.patch