Toke Høiland-Jørgensen b707e0da27 net/fq_impl: Switch to kvmalloc() for memory allocation ...

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The FQ implementation used by mac80211 allocates memory using kmalloc(),
which can fail; and Johannes reported that this actually happens in
practice.

To avoid this, switch the allocation to kvmalloc() instead; this also
brings fq_impl in line with all the FQ qdiscs.

Fixes: 557fc4a098 ("fq: add fair queuing framework")
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105155750.547379-1-toke@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

2019-12-05 09:19:45 +01:00

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