On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> The KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING ioctl does a vmalloc() of > >> sizeof(struct kvm_irq_routing_entry) multiplied by a user-supplied value. > >> This can be up to 4096 entries on architectures such as arm64 and s390 > >> (and the upper bound may be increased on s390 eventually). > >> > >> This can produce a vmalloc allocation failure warning: > >> > > [...] > >> kvm_vm_ioctl+0x910/0x15e0 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4153 > > > > ^^^^^ > > > >> @@ -3063,7 +3063,8 @@ static long kvm_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp, > > > > ^^^^^ > > > > > > Are you sure that you got the right vmalloc? > > Nice catch! But well, it's the only one in the whole file. :) > > That seems very much like an old patch then. I'm unqueuing it. > It's not a catch at all, the fact that I saw this warning with an older kernel for KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING doesn't mean that I can't patch it with an upstream kernel. Would you prefer I remove the stack trace completely?
