[PATCH] fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation

From: Alexander Mikhalitsyn
Date: Fri Dec 08 2023 - 10:12:46 EST


There is no reason to use a GFP_USER flag for struct super_block allocation
in the alloc_super(). Instead, let's use GFP_KERNEL for that.

>From the memory management perspective, the only difference between
GFP_USER and GFP_KERNEL is that GFP_USER allocations are tied to a cpuset,
while GFP_KERNEL ones are not.

There is no real issue and this is not a candidate to go to the stable,
but let's fix it for a consistency sake.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/super.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 076392396e72..6fe482371633 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static void destroy_unused_super(struct super_block *s)
static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type, int flags,
struct user_namespace *user_ns)
{
- struct super_block *s = kzalloc(sizeof(struct super_block), GFP_USER);
+ struct super_block *s = kzalloc(sizeof(struct super_block), GFP_KERNEL);
static const struct super_operations default_op;
int i;

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2.34.1