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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: mst@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH net V2 1/2] ptr_ring: try vmalloc() when kmalloc() fails
Date: Thu,  8 Feb 2018 11:21:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518060101-19071-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> (raw)

This patch switch to use kvmalloc_array() for using a vmalloc()
fallback to help in case kmalloc() fails.

Reported-by: syzbot+e4d4f9ddd4295539735d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 2e0ab8ca83c12 ("ptr_ring: array based FIFO for pointers")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/ptr_ring.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
index 1883d61..9c3b748 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ static inline int ptr_ring_consume_batched_bh(struct ptr_ring *r,
 
 static inline void **__ptr_ring_init_queue_alloc(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp)
 {
-	return kcalloc(size, sizeof(void *), gfp);
+	return kvmalloc_array(size, sizeof(void *), gfp | __GFP_ZERO);
 }
 
 static inline void __ptr_ring_set_size(struct ptr_ring *r, int size)
-- 
2.7.4

             reply	other threads:[~2018-02-08  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-08  3:21 Jason Wang [this message]
2018-02-08  3:21 ` [PATCH net V2 2/2] ptr_ring: fail on large queue size (>64K) Jason Wang
2018-02-08  3:26 ` [PATCH net V2 1/2] ptr_ring: try vmalloc() when kmalloc() fails Jason Wang

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