linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP

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Message-Id: <20231208151022.156273-1-aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Date:   Fri,  8 Dec 2023 16:10:22 +0100
From:   Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
To:     brauner@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation

There is no reason to use a GFP_USER flag for struct super_block allocation
in the alloc_super(). Instead, let's use GFP_KERNEL for that.

>From the memory management perspective, the only difference between
GFP_USER and GFP_KERNEL is that GFP_USER allocations are tied to a cpuset,
while GFP_KERNEL ones are not.

There is no real issue and this is not a candidate to go to the stable,
but let's fix it for a consistency sake.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
---
 fs/super.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 076392396e72..6fe482371633 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static void destroy_unused_super(struct super_block *s)
 static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type, int flags,
 				       struct user_namespace *user_ns)
 {
-	struct super_block *s = kzalloc(sizeof(struct super_block),  GFP_USER);
+	struct super_block *s = kzalloc(sizeof(struct super_block), GFP_KERNEL);
 	static const struct super_operations default_op;
 	int i;
 
-- 
2.34.1