Donate to e Foundation | Murena handsets with /e/OS | Own a part of Murena! Learn more

Commit 5023e5cf authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka Committed by Alasdair G Kergon
Browse files

dm ioctl: remove PF_MEMALLOC 



When allocating memory for the userspace ioctl data, set some
appropriate GPF flags directly instead of using PF_MEMALLOC.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
parent 7960123f

drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c

+4 −9
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -1556,7 +1556,10 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl __user *user, struct dm_ioctl **param) 


	secure_data = tmp.flags & DM_SECURE_DATA_FLAG;



	dmi = vmalloc(tmp.data_size);

	/*

	 * Try to avoid low memory issues when a device is suspended.

	 */

	dmi = __vmalloc(tmp.data_size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_HIGH, PAGE_KERNEL);

	if (!dmi) {

		if (secure_data && clear_user(user, tmp.data_size))

			return -EFAULT;
@@ -1656,19 +1659,11 @@ static int ctl_ioctl(uint command, struct dm_ioctl __user *user) 
		return -ENOTTY;

	}



	/*

	 * Trying to avoid low memory issues when a device is

	 * suspended.

	 */

	current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;



	/*

	 * Copy the parameters into kernel space.

	 */

	r = copy_params(user, &param);



	current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;



	if (r)

		return r;

include/uapi/linux/dm-ioctl.h

+2 −2
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -268,8 +268,8 @@ enum { 


#define DM_VERSION_MAJOR	4

#define DM_VERSION_MINOR	23

#define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL	0

#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA	"-ioctl (2012-07-25)"

#define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL	1

#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA	"-ioctl (2012-12-18)"



/* Status bits */

#define DM_READONLY_FLAG	(1 << 0) /* In/Out */