linux-kernel - Re: [char-misc-next v3] mei: use kvmalloc for read buffer

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Message-ID: <2024101509-refined-posh-c50d@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:48:07 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>
Cc: Oren Weil <oren.jer.weil@...el.com>, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Rohit Agarwal <rohiagar@...omium.org>,
	Brian Geffon <bgeffon@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [char-misc-next v3] mei: use kvmalloc for read buffer

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 03:31:57PM +0300, Alexander Usyskin wrote:
> Read buffer is allocated according to max message size, reported by
> the firmware and may reach 64K in systems with pxp client.
> Contiguous 64k allocation may fail under memory pressure.
> Read buffer is used as in-driver message storage and not required
> to be contiguous.
> Use kvmalloc to allow kernel to allocate non-contiguous memory.
> 
> Fixes: 3030dc056459 ("mei: add wrapper for queuing control commands.")
> Reported-by: Rohit Agarwal <rohiagar@...omium.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240813084542.2921300-1-rohiagar@chromium.org/
> Tested-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>
> ---

Why is this on the -next branch?  You want this merged now, right?

Again, I asked "why hasn't this been reviewed by others at Intel", and
so I'm just going to delete this series until it has followed the
correct Intel-internal review process.

greg k-h