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From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.10 061/171] net: account alternate interface name memory
Date:   Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:29:12 +0200
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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 5d26cff5bdbebdf98ba48217c078ff102536f134 ]

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

Reported-by: George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 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 9ff6d4160dab..77b3d9cc08a1 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3632,7 +3632,7 @@ 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;
 
-- 
2.35.1