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Re: [PATCH RESEND 4.4-only] netlink: Allow direct reclaim for fallback allocation

From Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH RESEND 4.4-only] netlink: Allow direct reclaim for fallback allocation
Date 2017-05-04 21:40 +0200
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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 <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
> ---
> 
> 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

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[PATCH RESEND 4.4-only] netlink: Allow direct reclaim for fallback allocation Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> - 2017-05-03 10:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH RESEND 4.4-only] netlink: Allow direct reclaim for  fallback allocation Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-05-04 21:40 +0200
  Patch "netlink: Allow direct reclaim for fallback allocation" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-05-04 21:50 +0200

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