[PATCH 11/28] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical

Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-20T15:21:59Z

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Failing to allocate a cache entry will only harm performance not correctness.
Do not consume valuable reserve pages for something like that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
---
security/selinux/avc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/security/selinux/avc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ linux-2.6/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static struct avc_node *avc_alloc_node(v
{
struct avc_node *node;

- node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC);
if (!node)
goto out;

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