We use a growing buffer for xattrs larger than a page size, at some
point vmalloc is unconditionally used for larger buffers. We can still
try to avoid it using the kvmalloc helper.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/send.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/send.c b/fs/btrfs/send.c
index 924b1d941b53..7416b17c0eac 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/send.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/send.c
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ static int iterate_dir_item(struct btrfs_root *root, struct btrfs_path *path,
buf = tmp;
}
if (!buf) {
- buf = vmalloc(buf_len);
+ buf = kvmalloc(buf_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
--
2.12.0
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