Messages in this thread | | | From | Miquel Raynal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtdchar: use kvmalloc() for potentially large allocations | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:10:18 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2022-05-16 at 07:06:01 UTC, =?utf-8?b?TWljaGHFgiBLxJlwaWXFhA==?= wrote: > mtdchar_write_ioctl() calls kmalloc() with the 'size' argument set to > the smaller of two values: the write request's data/OOB length provided > by user space and the erase block size of the MTD device. If the latter > is large, kmalloc() may not be able to serve such allocation requests. > Use kvmalloc() instead. Correspondingly, replace kfree() calls with > kvfree() calls. > > Suggested-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> > Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> > Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.
Miquel
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