FAILED: patch "[PATCH] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Support allocations of larger data" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 916727cfdb72cd01fef3fa6746e648f8cb70e713
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026030929-deepen-powwow-6468@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 916727cfdb72cd01fef3fa6746e648f8cb70e713 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:06:46 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Support allocations of larger data
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Some systems have much larger amounts of enumeration attributes
than have been previously encountered. This can lead to page allocation
failures when using kcalloc().  Switch over to using kvcalloc() to
allow larger allocations.

Fixes: 6b2770bfd6f92 ("platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: enum-attributes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Paul Kerry <p.kerry@sheffield.ac.uk>
Tested-by: Paul Kerry <p.kerry@sheffield.ac.uk>
Closes: https://bugs.debian.org/1127612
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225210646.59381-1-mario.limonciello@amd.com
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/enum-attributes.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/enum-attributes.c
index 470b9f44ed7a..af4d1920d488 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/enum-attributes.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/enum-attributes.c
@@ -94,8 +94,11 @@ int hp_alloc_enumeration_data(void)
 	bioscfg_drv.enumeration_instances_count =
 		hp_get_instance_count(HP_WMI_BIOS_ENUMERATION_GUID);
 
-	bioscfg_drv.enumeration_data = kzalloc_objs(*bioscfg_drv.enumeration_data,
-						    bioscfg_drv.enumeration_instances_count);
+	if (!bioscfg_drv.enumeration_instances_count)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	bioscfg_drv.enumeration_data = kvcalloc(bioscfg_drv.enumeration_instances_count,
+						sizeof(*bioscfg_drv.enumeration_data), GFP_KERNEL);
+
 	if (!bioscfg_drv.enumeration_data) {
 		bioscfg_drv.enumeration_instances_count = 0;
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -444,6 +447,6 @@ void hp_exit_enumeration_attributes(void)
 	}
 	bioscfg_drv.enumeration_instances_count = 0;
 
-	kfree(bioscfg_drv.enumeration_data);
+	kvfree(bioscfg_drv.enumeration_data);
 	bioscfg_drv.enumeration_data = NULL;
 }