linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 524/542] netdevsim: use __GFP

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Date:   Fri, 14 Feb 2020 08:23:14 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Taehee Yoo <ap420073@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 524/542] netdevsim: use __GFP_NOWARN to
 avoid memalloc warning

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:48:36 -0500 Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@...il.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 83cf4213bafc4e3c747f0a25ad22cfbf55af7e84 ]
> 
> vfnum buffer size and binary_len buffer size is received by user-space.
> So, this buffer size could be too large. If so, kmalloc will internally
> print a warning message.

Curious to see, I'm pretty sure Greg queued this yesterday.