fs/xattr.c:getxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures

This allocation can be as large as 64k.

 - Add __GFP_NOWARN so the falied kmalloc() is silent

 - Fall back to vmalloc() if the kmalloc() failed
Signed-off-by: NSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fs/xattr.c

@@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void __user *value,
 {
 	ssize_t error;
 	void *kvalue = NULL;
+	void *vvalue = NULL;
 	char kname[XATTR_NAME_MAX + 1];
 
 	error = strncpy_from_user(kname, name, sizeof(kname));
@@ -438,9 +439,13 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void __user *value,
 	if (size) {
 		if (size > XATTR_SIZE_MAX)
 			size = XATTR_SIZE_MAX;
-		kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!kvalue)
-			return -ENOMEM;
+		kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
+		if (!kvalue) {
+			vvalue = vmalloc(size);
+			if (!vvalue)
+				return -ENOMEM;
+			kvalue = vvalue;
+		}
 	}
 
 	error = vfs_getxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size);
@@ -452,7 +457,10 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void __user *value,
 		   than XATTR_SIZE_MAX bytes. Not possible. */
 		error = -E2BIG;
 	}
-	kfree(kvalue);
+	if (vvalue)
+		vfree(vvalue);
+	else
+		kfree(kvalue);
 	return error;
 }