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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 21:30:24 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 200651] New: cgroups iptables-restor: vmalloc: allocation
 failure
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To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Georgi Nikolov <gnikolov@icdsoft.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org

On Tue 07-08-18 20:23:55, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH] netfilter/x_tables: do not fail xt_alloc_table_info too
> >  easilly
> 
> [..]
> 
> > -	/* __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);
> >  	if (!info)
> >  		return NULL;
> 
> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> 
> You can keep this acked-by in case you mangle this patch in a minor
> way such as using GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT.

Thanks!

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs