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fs/xattr.c:setxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:25:07 +0000 (14:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 5 Apr 2012 22:25:50 +0000 (15:25 -0700)
commit44c824982fd37a578da23cc90885e9690a6a3f0e
treecc4180263258049e5b59fa019f6c686df2ff4caatree | snapshot (tar.gz zip)
parent0d08d7b7e13b5060181b11ecdde82d8fda322123commit | diff
fs/xattr.c:setxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures

This allocation can be as large as 64k.

 - Add __GFP_NOWARN so the a falied kmalloc() is silent

 - Fall back to vmalloc() if the kmalloc() failed

Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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