[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.16 092/109] net: account alternate interface name memory

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Apr 01 2022 - 11:14:56 EST


From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 5d26cff5bdbebdf98ba48217c078ff102536f134 ]

George reports that altnames can eat up kernel memory.
We should charge that memory appropriately.

Reported-by: George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 8b5c5703d758..6a7883ec0489 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3637,7 +3637,7 @@ static int rtnl_alt_ifname(int cmd, struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *attr,
if (err)
return err;

- alt_ifname = nla_strdup(attr, GFP_KERNEL);
+ alt_ifname = nla_strdup(attr, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
if (!alt_ifname)
return -ENOMEM;

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