linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC] ipmi: use vzalloc instead of kmalloc for user creation

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Message-Id: <1587099689-13678-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:01:29 +0800
From:   Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
To:     Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC] ipmi: use vzalloc instead of kmalloc for user creation

We met mulitple times of failure of staring bmc-watchdog,
due to the runtime memory allocation failure of order 4.

     bmc-watchdog: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x40cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-1
     CPU: 1 PID: 2571 Comm: bmc-watchdog Not tainted 5.5.0-00045-g7d6bb61d6188c #1
     Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.00.01.0015.110720180833 11/07/2018
     Call Trace:
      dump_stack+0x66/0x8b
      warn_alloc+0xfe/0x160
      __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xd3e/0xd80
      __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2f0/0x340
      kmalloc_order+0x18/0x70
      kmalloc_order_trace+0x1d/0xb0
      ipmi_create_user+0x55/0x2c0 [ipmi_msghandler]
      ipmi_open+0x72/0x110 [ipmi_devintf]
      chrdev_open+0xcb/0x1e0
      do_dentry_open+0x1ce/0x380
      path_openat+0x305/0x14f0
      do_filp_open+0x9b/0x110
      do_sys_open+0x1bd/0x250
      do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1f0
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Using vzalloc/vfree for creating ipmi_user heals the
problem.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index c48d8f0..96f1573 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ static void free_user_work(struct work_struct *work)
 					      remove_work);
 
 	cleanup_srcu_struct(&user->release_barrier);
-	kfree(user);
+	vfree(user);
 }
 
 int ipmi_create_user(unsigned int          if_num,
@@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ int ipmi_create_user(unsigned int          if_num,
 	if (rv)
 		return rv;
 
-	new_user = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_user), GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_user = vzalloc(sizeof(*new_user));
 	if (!new_user)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ int ipmi_create_user(unsigned int          if_num,
 
 out_kfree:
 	srcu_read_unlock(&ipmi_interfaces_srcu, index);
-	kfree(new_user);
+	vfree(new_user);
 	return rv;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ipmi_create_user);
-- 
2.7.4