Patchwork [15/32] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical

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Submitter Peter Zijlstra
Date Oct. 2, 2008, 1:05 p.m.
Message ID <20081002131608.595165971@chello.nl>
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Permalink /patch/2404/
State Not Applicable
Delegated to: David Miller
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Peter Zijlstra - Oct. 2, 2008, 1:05 p.m.
Failing to allocate a cache entry will only harm performance not correctness.
Do not consume valuable reserve pages for something like that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
---
 security/selinux/avc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch

Index: linux-2.6/security/selinux/avc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ linux-2.6/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@  static struct avc_node *avc_alloc_node(v
 {
 	struct avc_node *node;
 
-	node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC);
 	if (!node)
 		goto out;