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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Georgi Nikolov <gnikolov@icdsoft.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 200651] New: cgroups iptables-restor: vmalloc: allocation failure
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 12:44:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180802104401.GF10808@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180802092549.hooadz5e6tizns3z@salvia>

On Thu 02-08-18 11:25:49, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 10:50:43AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
> > index d0d8397c9588..b769408e04ab 100644
> > --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
> > +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
> > @@ -1178,12 +1178,7 @@ struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_info(unsigned int size)
> >  	if (sz < sizeof(*info) || sz >= XT_MAX_TABLE_SIZE)
> >  		return NULL;
> >  
> > -	/* __GFP_NORETRY is not fully supported by kvmalloc but it should
> > -	 * work reasonably well if sz is too large and bail out rather
> > -	 * than shoot all processes down before realizing there is nothing
> > -	 * more to reclaim.
> > -	 */
> > -	info = kvmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY);
> > +	info = kvmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ACCOUNT);
> 
> I guess the large number of cgroups match is helping to consume a lot
> of memory very quickly? We have a PATH_MAX in struct xt_cgroup_info_v1.

I really fail to see how that is related to the patch here.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-02 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-200651-27@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2018-07-25 19:52 ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-26  7:18   ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-26  7:26     ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-26  7:34       ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-26  7:42         ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-26  7:50           ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-26  8:03             ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-26  8:31               ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-26  8:48                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-26  9:02                   ` Georgi Nikolov
2018-07-30 13:37                     ` Georgi Nikolov
2018-07-30 13:57                       ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-30 15:54                         ` Georgi Nikolov
2018-07-30 18:38                           ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-30 18:51                             ` Georgi Nikolov
2018-07-31  6:38                               ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-31 13:55                                 ` Georgi Nikolov
2018-07-31 14:05                                   ` Florian Westphal
2018-07-31 14:25                                     ` Georgi Nikolov
2018-08-01  7:17                                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-01  7:34                                     ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-01  8:33                                       ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-01 16:03                                         ` Georgi Nikolov
2018-08-02  8:50                                           ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-02  9:25                                             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-08-02 10:44                                               ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-08-06  8:42                                             ` Georgi Nikolov
2018-08-07 11:02                                               ` Georgi Nikolov
2018-08-07 11:09                                                 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-07 11:19                                                   ` Florian Westphal
2018-08-07 11:26                                                     ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-07 11:30                                                       ` Florian Westphal
2018-08-07 11:38                                                         ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-07 11:31                                                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-07 13:35                                                         ` Mike Rapoport
2018-08-07 11:29                                             ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-07 11:37                                               ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-07 18:23                                             ` Florian Westphal
2018-08-07 19:30                                               ` Michal Hocko

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