xfs: fallback to vmalloc for large buffers in xfs_getbmap
authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 04:50:22 +0000 (04:50 +0000)
committerBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:54:23 +0000 (14:54 -0500)
xfs_getbmap uses for a large buffer for extents, which is kmalloc'd.
This can fail after the system has been running for some time as it
is a high order allocation. Add a fallback to vmalloc so that it
doesn't require contiguous memory and so won't randomly fail on
files with large extent lists.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c

index 188ef2f..3548c6f 100644 (file)
@@ -5536,8 +5536,12 @@ xfs_getbmap(
        if (bmv->bmv_count > ULONG_MAX / sizeof(struct getbmapx))
                return XFS_ERROR(ENOMEM);
        out = kmem_zalloc(bmv->bmv_count * sizeof(struct getbmapx), KM_MAYFAIL);
-       if (!out)
-               return XFS_ERROR(ENOMEM);
+       if (!out) {
+               out = kmem_zalloc_large(bmv->bmv_count *
+                                       sizeof(struct getbmapx));
+               if (!out)
+                       return XFS_ERROR(ENOMEM);
+       }
 
        xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED);
        if (whichfork == XFS_DATA_FORK && !(iflags & BMV_IF_DELALLOC)) {
@@ -5661,7 +5665,10 @@ xfs_getbmap(
                        break;
        }
 
-       kmem_free(out);
+       if (is_vmalloc_addr(out))
+               kmem_free_large(out);
+       else
+               kmem_free(out);
        return error;
 }