[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "selinux: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    selinux: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 983ae9f8fe2ac2e1d6dfd28ca36a9eaf4959c069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:48:11 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] selinux: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock

commit 4502403dcf8f5c76abd4dbab8726c8e4ecb5cd34 upstream.

The call tree here is:

sk_clone_lock()              <- takes bh_lock_sock(newsk);
xfrm_sk_clone_policy()
__xfrm_sk_clone_policy()
clone_policy()               <- uses GFP_ATOMIC for allocations
security_xfrm_policy_clone()
security_ops->xfrm_policy_clone_security()
selinux_xfrm_policy_clone()

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris at oracle.com>
Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 security/selinux/xfrm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/xfrm.c b/security/selinux/xfrm.c
index 48665ec..8ab2951 100644
--- a/security/selinux/xfrm.c
+++ b/security/selinux/xfrm.c
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ int selinux_xfrm_policy_clone(struct xfrm_sec_ctx *old_ctx,

 	if (old_ctx) {
 		new_ctx = kmalloc(sizeof(*old_ctx) + old_ctx->ctx_len,
-				  GFP_KERNEL);
+				  GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (!new_ctx)
 			return -ENOMEM;

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