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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2018-01-07 21:00:27 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2018-01-07 21:00:27 +0300
commit6c2c97a24f096e3239bc54029b808c6bcba4f358 (patch)
tree409df66cfadd26169a53c4ff49da07b0bd8400c5 /mm/util.c
parent105f2b7096075eacb6d2c83a6e00b652c2951063 (diff)
downloadlinux-6c2c97a24f096e3239bc54029b808c6bcba4f358.tar.xz
memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 34e57fae959d..4b93ffa6df96 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -156,12 +156,7 @@ void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len)
{
void *p;
- /*
- * Always use GFP_KERNEL, since copy_from_user() can sleep and
- * cause pagefault, which makes it pointless to use GFP_NOFS
- * or GFP_ATOMIC.
- */
- p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_USER);
if (!p)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);