From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753843AbeFERHQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2018 13:07:16 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:36468 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753409AbeFERHM (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2018 13:07:12 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Fengguang Wu , Alexander Shishkin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 52/61] stm class: Use vmalloc for the master map Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 19:02:13 +0200 Message-Id: <20180605170121.004287720@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20180605170117.643936916@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180605170117.643936916@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 X-stable: review MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Alexander Shishkin commit b5e2ced9bf81393034072dd4d372f6b430bc1f0a upstream. Fengguang is running into a warning from the buddy allocator: > swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x14040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null) > CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.17.0-rc1 #262 > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 > Call Trace: ... > __kmalloc+0x14b/0x180: ____cache_alloc at mm/slab.c:3127 > stm_register_device+0xf3/0x5c0: stm_register_device at drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c:695 ... Which is basically a result of the stm class trying to allocate ~512kB for the dummy_stm with its default parameters. There's no reason, however, for it not to be vmalloc()ed instead, which is what this patch does. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c @@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ static void stm_device_release(struct de { struct stm_device *stm = to_stm_device(dev); - kfree(stm); + vfree(stm); } int stm_register_device(struct device *parent, struct stm_data *stm_data, @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ int stm_register_device(struct device *p return -EINVAL; nmasters = stm_data->sw_end - stm_data->sw_start + 1; - stm = kzalloc(sizeof(*stm) + nmasters * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL); + stm = vzalloc(sizeof(*stm) + nmasters * sizeof(void *)); if (!stm) return -ENOMEM; @@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ err_device: /* matches device_initialize() above */ put_device(&stm->dev); err_free: - kfree(stm); + vfree(stm); return err; }