[PATCH 5.15 066/279] RDMA/core: Use kvzalloc when allocating the struct ib_port

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-24T13:49:29Z

From: wangyugui <wangyugui@e16-tech.com>

[ Upstream commit 911a81c9c7092bfd75432ce79b2ef879127ea065 ]

The 'struct attribute' flex array contains some struct lock_class_key's
which become big when lockdep is turned on. Big enough that some drivers
will not load when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y because they cannot allocate
enough memory:

WARNING: CPU: 36 PID: 8 at mm/page_alloc.c:5350 __alloc_pages+0x27e/0x3e0
Call Trace:
kmalloc_order+0x2a/0xb0
kmalloc_order_trace+0x19/0xf0
__kmalloc+0x231/0x270
ib_setup_port_attrs+0xd8/0x870 [ib_core]
ib_register_device+0x419/0x4e0 [ib_core]
bnxt_re_task+0x208/0x2d0 [bnxt_re]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019002656.17745-1-wangyugui@e16-tech.com
Signed-off-by: wangyugui <wangyugui@e16-tech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
index 6146c3c1cbe5c..8d709986b88c7 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ static void ib_port_release(struct kobject *kobj)
if (port->hw_stats_data)
kfree(port->hw_stats_data->stats);
kfree(port->hw_stats_data);
- kfree(port);
+ kvfree(port);
}

static void ib_port_gid_attr_release(struct kobject *kobj)
@@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ static struct ib_port *setup_port(struct ib_core_device *coredev, int port_num,
struct ib_port *p;
int ret;

- p = kzalloc(struct_size(p, attrs_list,
+ p = kvzalloc(struct_size(p, attrs_list,
attr->gid_tbl_len + attr->pkey_tbl_len),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p)
--
2.33.0