netfilter: xt_recent: avoid high order page allocations
xt_recent can try high order page allocations and this can fail. iptables: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0xc0d0 It also wastes about half the allocated space because of kmalloc() power-of-two roundups and struct recent_table layout. Use vmalloc() instead to save space and be less prone to allocation errors when memory is fragmented. Reported-by: Miroslav Kratochvil <exa.exa@gmail.com> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reported-by: Harald Reindl <h.reindl@thelounge.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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