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-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index 0555b4410e05..41852ae287a5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -1710,12 +1710,13 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl __user *user, struct dm_ioctl *param_kern
}
/*
- * Try to avoid low memory issues when a device is suspended.
+ * Use __GFP_HIGH to avoid low memory issues when a device is
+ * suspended and the ioctl is needed to resume it.
* Use kmalloc() rather than vmalloc() when we can.
*/
dmi = NULL;
noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
- dmi = kvmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ dmi = kvmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
if (!dmi) {