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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2018-01-07 13:00:27 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2018-01-07 13:00:27 -0500 |
| commit | 6c2c97a24f096e3239bc54029b808c6bcba4f358 (patch) | |
| tree | 409df66cfadd26169a53c4ff49da07b0bd8400c5 /mm/util.c | |
| parent | 105f2b7096075eacb6d2c83a6e00b652c2951063 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6c2c97a24f096e3239bc54029b808c6bcba4f358.tar.gz lwn-6c2c97a24f096e3239bc54029b808c6bcba4f358.zip | |
memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 34e57fae959d..4b93ffa6df96 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -156,12 +156,7 @@ void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len) { void *p; - /* - * Always use GFP_KERNEL, since copy_from_user() can sleep and - * cause pagefault, which makes it pointless to use GFP_NOFS - * or GFP_ATOMIC. - */ - p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_KERNEL); + p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_USER); if (!p) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); |