[PATCH v2 2/2] KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Mon Mar 9 16:32:20 UTC 2020


Waiman Long <longman at redhat.com> wrote:

> +			tmpbuf = kmalloc(tbuflen, GFP_KERNEL);

This would probably be better off using kvmalloc() - otherwise big objects
have to be constructed from runs of contiguous pages.  But since all we're
doing is buffering for userspace, we don't care about that.

If you agree, we can address it with an additional patch.

David



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