linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.1 44/70] xen-blkfront: switch kcalloc to kvcalloc for large array allocation

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Date:   Sun,  9 Jun 2019 18:41:55 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@...rix.com>,
        Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.1 44/70] xen-blkfront: switch kcalloc to kvcalloc for large array allocation

From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@...rix.com>

commit 1d5c76e66433382a1e170d1d5845bb0fed7467aa upstream.

There's no reason to request physically contiguous memory for those
allocations.

[boris: added CC to stable]

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@...rix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |   38 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -1310,11 +1310,11 @@ static void blkif_free_ring(struct blkfr
 		}
 
 free_shadow:
-		kfree(rinfo->shadow[i].grants_used);
+		kvfree(rinfo->shadow[i].grants_used);
 		rinfo->shadow[i].grants_used = NULL;
-		kfree(rinfo->shadow[i].indirect_grants);
+		kvfree(rinfo->shadow[i].indirect_grants);
 		rinfo->shadow[i].indirect_grants = NULL;
-		kfree(rinfo->shadow[i].sg);
+		kvfree(rinfo->shadow[i].sg);
 		rinfo->shadow[i].sg = NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -1353,7 +1353,7 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_i
 	for (i = 0; i < info->nr_rings; i++)
 		blkif_free_ring(&info->rinfo[i]);
 
-	kfree(info->rinfo);
+	kvfree(info->rinfo);
 	info->rinfo = NULL;
 	info->nr_rings = 0;
 }
@@ -1914,9 +1914,9 @@ static int negotiate_mq(struct blkfront_
 	if (!info->nr_rings)
 		info->nr_rings = 1;
 
-	info->rinfo = kcalloc(info->nr_rings,
-			      sizeof(struct blkfront_ring_info),
-			      GFP_KERNEL);
+	info->rinfo = kvcalloc(info->nr_rings,
+			       sizeof(struct blkfront_ring_info),
+			       GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!info->rinfo) {
 		xenbus_dev_fatal(info->xbdev, -ENOMEM, "allocating ring_info structure");
 		info->nr_rings = 0;
@@ -2232,17 +2232,17 @@ static int blkfront_setup_indirect(struc
 
 	for (i = 0; i < BLK_RING_SIZE(info); i++) {
 		rinfo->shadow[i].grants_used =
-			kcalloc(grants,
-				sizeof(rinfo->shadow[i].grants_used[0]),
-				GFP_NOIO);
-		rinfo->shadow[i].sg = kcalloc(psegs,
-					      sizeof(rinfo->shadow[i].sg[0]),
-					      GFP_NOIO);
+			kvcalloc(grants,
+				 sizeof(rinfo->shadow[i].grants_used[0]),
+				 GFP_NOIO);
+		rinfo->shadow[i].sg = kvcalloc(psegs,
+					       sizeof(rinfo->shadow[i].sg[0]),
+					       GFP_NOIO);
 		if (info->max_indirect_segments)
 			rinfo->shadow[i].indirect_grants =
-				kcalloc(INDIRECT_GREFS(grants),
-					sizeof(rinfo->shadow[i].indirect_grants[0]),
-					GFP_NOIO);
+				kvcalloc(INDIRECT_GREFS(grants),
+					 sizeof(rinfo->shadow[i].indirect_grants[0]),
+					 GFP_NOIO);
 		if ((rinfo->shadow[i].grants_used == NULL) ||
 			(rinfo->shadow[i].sg == NULL) ||
 		     (info->max_indirect_segments &&
@@ -2256,11 +2256,11 @@ static int blkfront_setup_indirect(struc
 
 out_of_memory:
 	for (i = 0; i < BLK_RING_SIZE(info); i++) {
-		kfree(rinfo->shadow[i].grants_used);
+		kvfree(rinfo->shadow[i].grants_used);
 		rinfo->shadow[i].grants_used = NULL;
-		kfree(rinfo->shadow[i].sg);
+		kvfree(rinfo->shadow[i].sg);
 		rinfo->shadow[i].sg = NULL;
-		kfree(rinfo->shadow[i].indirect_grants);
+		kvfree(rinfo->shadow[i].indirect_grants);
 		rinfo->shadow[i].indirect_grants = NULL;
 	}
 	if (!list_empty(&rinfo->indirect_pages)) {