Commit 5d26cff5 authored by Jakub Kicinski's avatar Jakub Kicinski
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net: account alternate interface name memory 



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

Reported-by: default avatarGeorge Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 1926407a

net/core/rtnetlink.c

+1 −1
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@@ -3658,7 +3658,7 @@ 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;