Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | "zhaoyang.huang" <> | Subject | [PATCH] fs: use kvmalloc for big coredump file | Date | Thu, 1 Sep 2022 09:18:25 +0800 |
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From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
High order page allocation observed which even introduce kernel panic when generating coredump file, use kvmalloc_array instead of kmalloc_array
[68058.982108] init: Untracked pid 3847 exited with status 0 [68058.982343] init: Untracked pid 3847 did not have an associated service entry and will not be reaped [68059.038127] warn_alloc: 29 callbacks suppressed [68059.038132] TimerThread: page allocation failure: order:7, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=foreground,mems_allowed=0 [68059.038155] CPU: 6 PID: 3597 Comm: TimerThread Tainted: G W OE 5.15.41-android13-8-01198-g03458ee9a090-ab000039 #1 [68059.038159] Hardware name: Unisoc UMS9620-base Board (DT) [68059.038161] Call trace: [68059.038163] dump_backtrace.cfi_jt+0x0/0x8 [68059.038169] dump_stack_lvl+0x98/0xe8 [68059.038174] warn_alloc+0x164/0x200 [68059.038180] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x9d4/0xb64 [68059.038183] __alloc_pages+0x21c/0x39c [68059.038186] kmalloc_order+0x4c/0x13c [68059.038189] kmalloc_order_trace+0x34/0x154 [68059.038192] __kmalloc+0x600/0x8a8 [68059.038196] elf_core_dump+0x7c4/0x15d8 [68059.038201] do_coredump+0x680/0xe54 [68059.038203] get_signal+0x610/0x988 [68059.038209] do_signal+0xd4/0x2bc [68059.038213] do_notify_resume+0xa0/0x1c8 [68059.038216] el0_svc+0x68/0x90 [68059.038219] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xec [68059.038222] el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8
Reported-by: Guanglu Xu <guanglu.xu@unisoc.com> Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com> --- fs/coredump.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c index ebc43f9..52e9177 100644 --- a/fs/coredump.c +++ b/fs/coredump.c @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ void do_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo) goto fail_dropcount; } - helper_argv = kmalloc_array(argc + 1, sizeof(*helper_argv), + helper_argv = kvmalloc_array(argc + 1, sizeof(*helper_argv), GFP_KERNEL); if (!helper_argv) { printk(KERN_WARNING "%s failed to allocate memory\n", @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ void do_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo) retval = call_usermodehelper_exec(sub_info, UMH_WAIT_EXEC); - kfree(helper_argv); + kvfree(helper_argv); if (retval) { printk(KERN_INFO "Core dump to |%s pipe failed\n", cn.corename); -- 1.9.1
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