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SubjectRe: [patch] kvm: suppress KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING allocation failure
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> >> The KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING ioctl does a vmalloc() of
> >> sizeof(struct kvm_irq_routing_entry) multiplied by a user-supplied value.
> >> This can be up to 4096 entries on architectures such as arm64 and s390
> >> (and the upper bound may be increased on s390 eventually).
> >>
> >> This can produce a vmalloc allocation failure warning:
> >>
> > [...]
> >> kvm_vm_ioctl+0x910/0x15e0 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4153
> >
> > ^^^^^
> >
> >> @@ -3063,7 +3063,8 @@ static long kvm_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
> >
> > ^^^^^
> >
> >
> > Are you sure that you got the right vmalloc?
>
> Nice catch! But well, it's the only one in the whole file. :)
>
> That seems very much like an old patch then. I'm unqueuing it.
>

It's not a catch at all, the fact that I saw this warning with an older
kernel for KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING doesn't mean that I can't patch it with an
upstream kernel. Would you prefer I remove the stack trace completely?

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