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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2012-08-17 08:57:56 +0200
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2012-08-17 09:01:08 +0200
commita22ddff8bedfe33eeb1330bbb7ef1fbe007a42c4 (patch)
tree61a2eb7fa62f5af10c2b913ca429e6b068b0eb2d /fs/xattr.c
parent20d5a540e55a29daeef12706f9ee73baf5641c16 (diff)
parentd9875690d9b89a866022ff49e3fcea892345ad92 (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.6-rc2' into drm-intel-next
Backmerge Linux 3.6-rc2 to resolve a few funny conflicts before we put even more madness on top: - drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c: Just a spurious WARN removed in -fixes, that has been changed in a variable-rename in -next, too. - drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c: -next remove scratch_addr (since all their users have been extracted in another fucntion), -fixes added another user for a hw workaroudn. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xattr.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c16
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 1d7ac3790458..4d45b7189e7e 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void __user *value,
{
ssize_t error;
void *kvalue = NULL;
+ void *vvalue = NULL;
char kname[XATTR_NAME_MAX + 1];
error = strncpy_from_user(kname, name, sizeof(kname));
@@ -438,9 +439,13 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void __user *value,
if (size) {
if (size > XATTR_SIZE_MAX)
size = XATTR_SIZE_MAX;
- kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!kvalue)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
+ if (!kvalue) {
+ vvalue = vmalloc(size);
+ if (!vvalue)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ kvalue = vvalue;
+ }
}
error = vfs_getxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size);
@@ -452,7 +457,10 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void __user *value,
than XATTR_SIZE_MAX bytes. Not possible. */
error = -E2BIG;
}
- kfree(kvalue);
+ if (vvalue)
+ vfree(vvalue);
+ else
+ kfree(kvalue);
return error;
}