mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing

Allocating a large number of elements in atomic context could quickly
deplete memory reserves, so just disallow atomic resizing entirely.

Nothing currently uses mempool_resize() with anything other than
GFP_KERNEL, so convert existing callers to drop the gfp_mask.

[[email protected]: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steffen Maier <[email protected]>	[zfcp]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Steve French <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
David Rientjes 2015-04-14 15:48:21 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 11d8336045
4 changed files with 11 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -113,23 +113,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_create_node);
* mempool_create().
* @new_min_nr: the new minimum number of elements guaranteed to be
* allocated for this pool.
* @gfp_mask: the usual allocation bitmask.
*
* This function shrinks/grows the pool. In the case of growing,
* it cannot be guaranteed that the pool will be grown to the new
* size immediately, but new mempool_free() calls will refill it.
* This function may sleep.
*
* Note, the caller must guarantee that no mempool_destroy is called
* while this function is running. mempool_alloc() & mempool_free()
* might be called (eg. from IRQ contexts) while this function executes.
*/
int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr)
{
void *element;
void **new_elements;
unsigned long flags;
BUG_ON(new_min_nr <= 0);
might_sleep();
spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
if (new_min_nr <= pool->min_nr) {
@ -145,7 +146,8 @@ int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
/* Grow the pool */
new_elements = kmalloc(new_min_nr * sizeof(*new_elements), gfp_mask);
new_elements = kmalloc_array(new_min_nr, sizeof(*new_elements),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_elements)
return -ENOMEM;
@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
while (pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
element = pool->alloc(gfp_mask, pool->pool_data);
element = pool->alloc(GFP_KERNEL, pool->pool_data);
if (!element)
goto out;
spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);