large allocations in sys_add_key trigger page allocation failure.

Just triggered this ..

Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.957215] trinity: page allocation failure: order:8, mode:0x40d0
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.957659] Pid: 18257, comm: trinity Not tainted 3.3.0+ #31
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.966766] Call Trace:
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.967218]  [<ffffffff8115dd66>] warn_alloc_failed+0xf6/0x160
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.967910]  [<ffffffff816b66b6>] ? preempt_schedule+0x46/0x60
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.969266]  [<ffffffff811607d0>] ? page_alloc_cpu_notify+0x60/0x60
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.970056]  [<ffffffff81162492>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x8b2/0xb10
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.971127]  [<ffffffff8119dae6>] alloc_pages_current+0xb6/0x120
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.972203]  [<ffffffff8115d3b4>] __get_free_pages+0x14/0x50
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.973285]  [<ffffffff811ac64f>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x3f/0x1a0
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.974349]  [<ffffffff811aca0a>] __kmalloc+0x25a/0x280
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.975585]  [<ffffffff812c034a>] sys_add_key+0x9a/0x210
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.976501]  [<ffffffff813386be>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
Mar 28 20:01:13 dhcp-189-232 kernel: [15750.977567]  [<ffffffff816c04e9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

An order 8 allocation seems kind of excessive.
There's already a fallback to vmalloc() in place, but can we just silence this spew with the patch below ?

Dave

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Suppress large allocation warnings from sys_add_key

We already fallback to vmalloc, so this is just noise.

index fb767c6..f65c72a 100644
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(add_key, const char __user *, _type,
 	vm = false;
 	if (_payload) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		payload = kmalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL);
+		payload = kmalloc(plen, __GFP_NOWARN | GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!payload) {
 			if (plen <= PAGE_SIZE)
 				goto error2;