From 7c47a219b95d0e06b5ef5fcc7bad807895015eac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Feng Tang Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:48:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] ipmi: use vzalloc instead of kmalloc for user creation We met mulitple times of failure of staring bmc-watchdog, due to the runtime memory allocation failure of order 4. bmc-watchdog: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x40cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-1 CPU: 1 PID: 2571 Comm: bmc-watchdog Not tainted 5.5.0-00045-g7d6bb61d6188c #1 Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.00.01.0015.110720180833 11/07/2018 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x66/0x8b warn_alloc+0xfe/0x160 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xd3e/0xd80 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2f0/0x340 kmalloc_order+0x18/0x70 kmalloc_order_trace+0x1d/0xb0 ipmi_create_user+0x55/0x2c0 [ipmi_msghandler] ipmi_open+0x72/0x110 [ipmi_devintf] chrdev_open+0xcb/0x1e0 do_dentry_open+0x1ce/0x380 path_openat+0x305/0x14f0 do_filp_open+0x9b/0x110 do_sys_open+0x1bd/0x250 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 Using vzalloc/vfree for creating ipmi_user heals the problem Thanks to Stephen Rothwell for finding the vmalloc.h inclusion issue. Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c index c48d8f0..9afd220 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #define IPMI_DRIVER_VERSION "39.2" @@ -1153,7 +1154,7 @@ static void free_user_work(struct work_struct *work) remove_work); cleanup_srcu_struct(&user->release_barrier); - kfree(user); + vfree(user); } int ipmi_create_user(unsigned int if_num, @@ -1185,7 +1186,7 @@ int ipmi_create_user(unsigned int if_num, if (rv) return rv; - new_user = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_user), GFP_KERNEL); + new_user = vzalloc(sizeof(*new_user)); if (!new_user) return -ENOMEM; @@ -1232,7 +1233,7 @@ int ipmi_create_user(unsigned int if_num, out_kfree: srcu_read_unlock(&ipmi_interfaces_srcu, index); - kfree(new_user); + vfree(new_user); return rv; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ipmi_create_user); -- 2.7.4