linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: free orphan info with kvfree

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Message-ID: <20251007134936.7291-2-jack@suse.cz>
Date: Tue,  7 Oct 2025 15:49:37 +0200
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To: Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc: <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Chris Mason <clm@...a.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: free orphan info with kvfree

Orphan info is now getting allocated with kvmalloc_array(). Free it with
kvfree() instead of kfree() to avoid complaints from mm.

Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@...a.com>
Fixes: 0a6ce20c1564 ("ext4: verify orphan file size is not too big")
CC: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/orphan.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/orphan.c b/fs/ext4/orphan.c
index 33c3a89396b1..82d5e7501455 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/orphan.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/orphan.c
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ void ext4_release_orphan_info(struct super_block *sb)
 		return;
 	for (i = 0; i < oi->of_blocks; i++)
 		brelse(oi->of_binfo[i].ob_bh);
-	kfree(oi->of_binfo);
+	kvfree(oi->of_binfo);
 }
 
 static struct ext4_orphan_block_tail *ext4_orphan_block_tail(
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ int ext4_init_orphan_info(struct super_block *sb)
 out_free:
 	for (i--; i >= 0; i--)
 		brelse(oi->of_binfo[i].ob_bh);
-	kfree(oi->of_binfo);
+	kvfree(oi->of_binfo);
 out_put:
 	iput(inode);
 	return ret;
-- 
2.51.0