+ mm-allow-__gfp_retry_mayfail-in-vmalloc.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

+ mm-allow-__gfp_retry_mayfail-in-vmalloc.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm: allow __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL in vmalloc
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-allow-__gfp_retry_mayfail-in-vmalloc.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-allow-__gfp_retry_mayfail-in-vmalloc.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Subject: mm: allow __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL in vmalloc
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:33:30 +0100 (CET)

The commit 07003531e03c8 ("mm/vmalloc: warn on invalid vmalloc gfp flags")
breaks the device mapper VDO target.  The VDO target calls vmalloc with
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL and this flag is not in the mask of allowed flags.

There is no reason why vmalloc couldn't support __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, so
let's add this flag to GFP_VMALLOC_SUPPORTED.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff48283b-be21-7f9a-d616-e303a4a1ebe6@redhat.com
Fixes: 07003531e03c ("mm/vmalloc: warn on invalid vmalloc gfp flags")
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[6.19]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/vmalloc.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-allow-__gfp_retry_mayfail-in-vmalloc
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3928,6 +3928,7 @@ fail:
  */
 #define GFP_VMALLOC_SUPPORTED (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_NOWAIT |\
 				__GFP_NOFAIL |  __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NORETRY |\
+				__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL |\
 				GFP_NOFS | GFP_NOIO | GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT |\
 				GFP_USER | __GFP_NOLOCKDEP)
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mpatocka@redhat.com are

mm-allow-__gfp_retry_mayfail-in-vmalloc.patch