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Message-Id: <20221216234659.493794-1-lstoakes@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2022 23:46:59 +0000
From:   Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: vmalloc: correct use of __GFP_NOWARN mask in __vmalloc_area_node()

This function invokes warn_alloc() with __GFP_NOWARN set which is a
no-op. Set this flag _after_ this call so it is actually invoked, and
additionally remove a duplicate application of __GFP_NOWARN afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index ca71de7c9d77..9e30f0b39203 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3031,7 +3031,7 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	int ret;

 	array_size = (unsigned long)nr_small_pages * sizeof(struct page *);
-	gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN;
+
 	if (!(gfp_mask & (GFP_DMA | GFP_DMA32)))
 		gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;

@@ -3051,10 +3051,12 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 		return NULL;
 	}

+	gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN;
+
 	set_vm_area_page_order(area, page_shift - PAGE_SHIFT);
 	page_order = vm_area_page_order(area);

-	area->nr_pages = vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_mask | __GFP_NOWARN,
+	area->nr_pages = vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_mask,
 		node, page_order, nr_small_pages, area->pages);

 	atomic_long_add(area->nr_pages, &nr_vmalloc_pages);
--
2.38.1

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