[PATCH] pass gfp_mask to kmalloc() done from audit_log_exit()

Alexander Viro aviro at redhat.com
Wed Feb 15 22:14:11 UTC 2006


When caller tells us that there are constraints on allocations we are allowed
to do, we'd better follow those for more than the first allocation.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>

---

 kernel/auditsc.c |   20 ++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

483cfcd5b5076acedd1729b23f84a901ab165baf
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 8b92132..a9e991b 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ static inline void audit_free_context(st
 		printk(KERN_ERR "audit: freed %d contexts\n", count);
 }
 
-static void audit_log_task_context(struct audit_buffer *ab)
+static void audit_log_task_context(struct audit_buffer *ab, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	char *ctx = NULL;
 	ssize_t len = 0;
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ static void audit_log_task_context(struc
 		return;
 	}
 
-	ctx = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ctx = kmalloc(len, gfp_mask);
 	if (!ctx)
 		goto error_path;
 
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ error_path:
 	return;
 }
 
-static void audit_log_task_info(struct audit_buffer *ab)
+static void audit_log_task_info(struct audit_buffer *ab, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	char name[sizeof(current->comm)];
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
@@ -546,6 +546,10 @@ static void audit_log_task_info(struct a
 	if (!mm)
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * this is brittle; all callers that pass GFP_ATOMIC will have
+	 * NULL current->mm and we won't get here.
+	 */
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	vma = mm->mmap;
 	while (vma) {
@@ -559,7 +563,7 @@ static void audit_log_task_info(struct a
 		vma = vma->vm_next;
 	}
 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	audit_log_task_context(ab);
+	audit_log_task_context(ab, gfp_mask);
 }
 
 static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_context *context, gfp_t gfp_mask)
@@ -595,12 +599,12 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_
 		  context->gid,
 		  context->euid, context->suid, context->fsuid,
 		  context->egid, context->sgid, context->fsgid);
-	audit_log_task_info(ab);
+	audit_log_task_info(ab, gfp_mask);
 	audit_log_end(ab);
 
 	for (aux = context->aux; aux; aux = aux->next) {
 
-		ab = audit_log_start(context, GFP_KERNEL, aux->type);
+		ab = audit_log_start(context, gfp_mask, aux->type);
 		if (!ab)
 			continue; /* audit_panic has been called */
 
@@ -637,7 +641,7 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_
 	}
 
 	if (context->pwd && context->pwdmnt) {
-		ab = audit_log_start(context, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_CWD);
+		ab = audit_log_start(context, gfp_mask, AUDIT_CWD);
 		if (ab) {
 			audit_log_d_path(ab, "cwd=", context->pwd, context->pwdmnt);
 			audit_log_end(ab);
@@ -647,7 +651,7 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_
 		unsigned long ino  = context->names[i].ino;
 		unsigned long pino = context->names[i].pino;
 
-		ab = audit_log_start(context, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_PATH);
+		ab = audit_log_start(context, gfp_mask, AUDIT_PATH);
 		if (!ab)
 			continue; /* audit_panic has been called */
 
-- 
0.99.9.GIT




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