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authorJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>2013-02-18 19:04:34 -0500
committerJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>2013-04-28 03:36:09 -0400
commit0ca554b9fca425eb58325a36290deef698cef34b (patch)
treeaa9cd7544db53f617f8bf6b0e441f97a55ed4181 /security/apparmor/lib.c
parent3cfcc19e0b5390c04cb5bfa4e8fde39395410e61 (diff)
apparmor: add kvzalloc to handle zeroing for kvmalloc
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Acked-by: Steve Beattie <sbeattie@ubuntu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/apparmor/lib.c')
-rw-r--r--security/apparmor/lib.c14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/security/apparmor/lib.c b/security/apparmor/lib.c
index 7430298116d6..d6e1f2148398 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lib.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lib.c
@@ -75,15 +75,16 @@ void aa_info_message(const char *str)
75} 75}
76 76
77/** 77/**
78 * kvmalloc - do allocation preferring kmalloc but falling back to vmalloc 78 * __aa_kvmalloc - do allocation preferring kmalloc but falling back to vmalloc
79 * @size: size of allocation 79 * @size: how many bytes of memory are required
80 * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
80 * 81 *
81 * Return: allocated buffer or NULL if failed 82 * Return: allocated buffer or NULL if failed
82 * 83 *
83 * It is possible that policy being loaded from the user is larger than 84 * It is possible that policy being loaded from the user is larger than
84 * what can be allocated by kmalloc, in those cases fall back to vmalloc. 85 * what can be allocated by kmalloc, in those cases fall back to vmalloc.
85 */ 86 */
86void *kvmalloc(size_t size) 87void *__aa_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
87{ 88{
88 void *buffer = NULL; 89 void *buffer = NULL;
89 90
@@ -92,14 +93,17 @@ void *kvmalloc(size_t size)
92 93
93 /* do not attempt kmalloc if we need more than 16 pages at once */ 94 /* do not attempt kmalloc if we need more than 16 pages at once */
94 if (size <= (16*PAGE_SIZE)) 95 if (size <= (16*PAGE_SIZE))
95 buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN); 96 buffer = kmalloc(size, flags | GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN);
96 if (!buffer) { 97 if (!buffer) {
97 /* see kvfree for why size must be at least work_struct size 98 /* see kvfree for why size must be at least work_struct size
98 * when allocated via vmalloc 99 * when allocated via vmalloc
99 */ 100 */
100 if (size < sizeof(struct work_struct)) 101 if (size < sizeof(struct work_struct))
101 size = sizeof(struct work_struct); 102 size = sizeof(struct work_struct);
102 buffer = vmalloc(size); 103 if (flags & __GFP_ZERO)
104 buffer = vzalloc(size);
105 else
106 buffer = vmalloc(size);
103 } 107 }
104 return buffer; 108 return buffer;
105} 109}