From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,baoquan.he@linux.dev,anshuman.khandual@arm.com,urezki@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] mm-vmalloc-do-not-warn-on-enomem-from-va_alloc.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:53:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825015350.C4EB51F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/vmalloc: do not warn on -ENOMEM from va_alloc()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-vmalloc-do-not-warn-on-enomem-from-va_alloc.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Subject: mm/vmalloc: do not warn on -ENOMEM from va_alloc()
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 12:46:27 +0200
Since vmalloc() accepts non-blocking GFP flags, allocation requests may
fail when callers pass restrictive GFP masks.
va_clip() may return -ENOMEM when its GFP_NOWAIT fallback allocation fails
during NE_FIT_TYPE splitting. This is an expected failure, so va_alloc()
should return the error without triggering a kernel splat.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260802104627.63892-1-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+61c997e6be1d9bb300ba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/6a6d3cbd.6ce73036.24301b.000e.GAE@google.com
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 13 ++++++-------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-do-not-warn-on-enomem-from-va_alloc
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1840,8 +1840,10 @@ va_alloc(struct vmap_area *va,
/* Update the free vmap_area. */
ret = va_clip(root, head, va, nva_start_addr, size);
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret))
+ if (ret) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(ret != -ENOMEM);
return ret;
+ }
return nva_start_addr;
}
@@ -1914,12 +1916,9 @@ preload_this_cpu_lock(spinlock_t *lock,
/*
* Preload this CPU with one extra vmap_area object. It is used
- * when fit type of free area is NE_FIT_TYPE. It guarantees that
- * a CPU that does an allocation is preloaded.
- *
- * We do it in non-atomic context, thus it allows us to use more
- * permissive allocation masks to be more stable under low memory
- * condition and high memory pressure.
+ * when fit type of free area is NE_FIT_TYPE. It is best effort
+ * pre-loading. If it fails va_clip() may return -ENOMEM from its
+ * GFP_NOWAIT fallback.
*/
if (!this_cpu_read(ne_fit_preload_node))
va = kmem_cache_alloc_node(vmap_area_cachep, gfp_mask, node);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from urezki@gmail.com are
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