From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 4.4-only] netlink: Allow direct reclaim for fallback allocation Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 12:38:14 -0700 Message-ID: <20170504193814.GB10166@kroah.com> References: <1493801059-2828-1-git-send-email-ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Ross Lagerwall Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1493801059-2828-1-git-send-email-ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:44:19AM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > The backport of d35c99ff77ec ("netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from > netlink_dump()") to the 4.4 branch (first in 4.4.32) mistakenly removed > direct claim from the initial large allocation _and_ the fallback > allocation which means that allocations can spuriously fail. > Fix the issue by adding back the direct reclaim flag to the fallback > allocation. > > Fixes: 6d123f1d396b ("netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from netlink_dump()") > Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall > --- > > Note that this is only for the 4.4 branch as the regression is only in > this branch. Consequently, there is no corresponding upstream commit. > > I'm resending this to the linux-stable list since I now understand the > netdev maintainer only handles backports for the last couple of versions > of Linux. > Many thanks for this fix, now queued up. greg k-h