From 8e9a392d39629df4a2553848f3a533cef7d37c0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 10:07:56 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] fs/xattr.c:setxattr(): improve handling of allocation
 failures

This allocation can be as large as 64k.

- Add __GFP_NOWARN so the a falied kmalloc() is silent

- Fall back to vmalloc() if the kmalloc() failed

Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 fs/xattr.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index d14afbae3c13..3c8c1cc333c7 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ setxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, const void __user *value,
 {
 	int error;
 	void *kvalue = NULL;
+	void *vvalue = NULL;	/* If non-NULL, we used vmalloc() */
 	char kname[XATTR_NAME_MAX + 1];
 
 	if (flags & ~(XATTR_CREATE|XATTR_REPLACE))
@@ -335,13 +336,25 @@ setxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, const void __user *value,
 	if (size) {
 		if (size > XATTR_SIZE_MAX)
 			return -E2BIG;
-		kvalue = memdup_user(value, size);
-		if (IS_ERR(kvalue))
-			return PTR_ERR(kvalue);
+		kvalue = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
+		if (!kvalue) {
+			vvalue = vmalloc(size);
+			if (!vvalue)
+				return -ENOMEM;
+			kvalue = vvalue;
+		}
+		if (copy_from_user(kvalue, value, size)) {
+			error = -EFAULT;
+			goto out;
+		}
 	}
 
 	error = vfs_setxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size, flags);
-	kfree(kvalue);
+out:
+	if (vvalue)
+		vfree(vvalue);
+	else
+		kfree(kvalue);
 	return error;
 }
 
-- 
2.39.5