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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-03-09 21:29:13 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-04-13 21:59:09 +0300
commit601f748029f35f1e4065a87406dd855142e22c81 (patch)
tree0ae39e06fc2a44c1cac53905473abc8531818e28
parentd804db3dafd11a2973d0d3ce38ef844d8c10a22a (diff)
downloadlinux-601f748029f35f1e4065a87406dd855142e22c81.tar.xz
net: account alternate interface name memory
[ Upstream commit 5d26cff5bdbebdf98ba48217c078ff102536f134 ] George reports that altnames can eat up kernel memory. We should charge that memory appropriately. Reported-by: George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 91d7a5a5a08d..a8c319dc224a 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3637,7 +3637,7 @@ static int rtnl_alt_ifname(int cmd, struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *attr,
if (err)
return err;
- alt_ifname = nla_strdup(attr, GFP_KERNEL);
+ alt_ifname = nla_strdup(attr, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
if (!alt_ifname)
return -ENOMEM;