Re: [PATCH] erofs: fix kvcalloc() misuse with __GFP_NOFAIL

Chao Yu
2023-01-09T10:41:53Z

On 2023/1/6 13:06, Gao Xiang wrote:
>
>
> On 2023/1/6 11:19, Gao Xiang wrote:
>> As reported by syzbot [1], kvcalloc() cannot work with  __GFP_NOFAIL.
>> Let's use kcalloc() instead.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/0000000000007796bd05f1852ec2@google.com
>> Reported-by: syzbot+c3729cda01706a04fb98@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
>
> Fixes: fe3e5914e6dc ("erofs: try to leave (de)compressed_pages on stack if possible")
> Fixes: 4f05687fd703 ("erofs: introduce struct z_erofs_decompress_backend")
>
>> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
>> ---
>>   fs/erofs/zdata.c | 8 ++++----
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/erofs/zdata.c b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
>> index ccf7c55d477f..08e982c77985 100644
>> --- a/fs/erofs/zdata.c
>> +++ b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
>> @@ -1032,12 +1032,12 @@ static int z_erofs_decompress_pcluster(struct z_erofs_decompress_backend *be,
>>       if (!be->decompressed_pages)
>>           be->decompressed_pages =
>> -            kvcalloc(be->nr_pages, sizeof(struct page *),
>> -                 GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>> +            kcalloc(be->nr_pages, sizeof(struct page *),
>> +                GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>>       if (!be->compressed_pages)
>>           be->compressed_pages =
>> -            kvcalloc(pclusterpages, sizeof(struct page *),
>> -                 GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>> +            kcalloc(pclusterpages, sizeof(struct page *),
>> +                GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);

How about using kfree instead of kvfree for .decompressed_pages and
.compressed_pages memory release? It's trivial though.

Anyway, feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>

Thanks,

>>       z_erofs_parse_out_bvecs(be);
>>       err2 = z_erofs_parse_in_bvecs(be, &overlapped);