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Commit d88a735a authored by Michal Hocko's avatar Michal Hocko Committed by Dennis Cagle
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selinux: use GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC kmem_caches 



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.

Change-Id: I3876a6b95bdacc67c65c45f42593423faa9271b4
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Git-repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git


Git-commit: 476accbe2f6ef69caeebe99f52a286e12ac35aee
Signed-off-by: default avatarDennis Cagle <dcagle@codeaurora.org>
parent 40c1b6f6

security/selinux/avc.c

+6 −8
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -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_xperms_alloc(void) 
{

	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(void) 
{

	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;