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Minchan Kim f38371821c selinux: use __GFP_NOWARN with GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC
[ Upstream commit 648f2c6100 ]

In the field, we have seen lots of allocation failure from the call
path below.

06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W Binder  : 31542_2: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x800(GFP_NOWAIT), nodemask=(null),cpuset=background,mems_allowed=0
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06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W Call trace:
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : dump_backtrace.cfi_jt+0x0/0x8
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : dump_stack+0xc8/0x14c
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : warn_alloc+0x158/0x1c8
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x9d8/0xb80
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1c4/0x430
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : allocate_slab+0xb4/0x390
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : ___slab_alloc+0x12c/0x3a4
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : kmem_cache_alloc+0x358/0x5e4
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : avc_alloc_node+0x30/0x184
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : avc_update_node+0x54/0x4f0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : avc_has_extended_perms+0x1a4/0x460
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : selinux_file_ioctl+0x320/0x3d0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xec/0x1fc
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : el0_svc_common+0xc0/0x24c
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : el0_svc+0x28/0x88
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : el0_sync_handler+0x8c/0xf0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : el0_sync+0x1a4/0x1c0
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06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0

Based on [1], selinux is tolerate for failure of memory allocation.
Then, use __GFP_NOWARN together.

[1] 476accbe2f ("selinux: use GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC kmem_caches")

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
[PM: subj fix, line wraps, normalized commit refs]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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