linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtdchar: use kvmalloc() for potentially large allocations

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Date:   Thu,  9 Jun 2022 15:10:18 +0200
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtdchar: use kvmalloc() for potentially large allocations

On Mon, 2022-05-16 at 07:06:01 UTC, =?utf-8?b?TWljaGHFgiBLxJlwaWXFhA==?= wrote:
> mtdchar_write_ioctl() calls kmalloc() with the 'size' argument set to
> the smaller of two values: the write request's data/OOB length provided
> by user space and the erase block size of the MTD device.  If the latter
> is large, kmalloc() may not be able to serve such allocation requests.
> Use kvmalloc() instead.  Correspondingly, replace kfree() calls with
> kvfree() calls.
> 
> Suggested-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
> Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl>
> Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel