linux-kernel - Re: WARNING in kvmalloc

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Date:   Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:43:08 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+1a240cdb1f4cc88819df@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dhowells@...hat.com, hannes@...xchg.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        vbabka@...e.cz, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WARNING in kvmalloc_node

On Tue 13-02-18 18:55:33, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 03:59:01PM -0800, syzbot wrote:
[...]
> >  kvmalloc include/linux/mm.h:541 [inline]
> >  kvmalloc_array include/linux/mm.h:557 [inline]
> >  __ptr_ring_init_queue_alloc include/linux/ptr_ring.h:474 [inline]
> >  ptr_ring_init include/linux/ptr_ring.h:492 [inline]
> >  __cpu_map_entry_alloc kernel/bpf/cpumap.c:359 [inline]
> >  cpu_map_update_elem+0x3c3/0x8e0 kernel/bpf/cpumap.c:490
> >  map_update_elem kernel/bpf/syscall.c:698 [inline]
> 
> Blame the BPF people, not the MM people ;-)

Yes. kvmalloc (the vmalloc part) doesn't support GFP_ATOMIC semantic.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs