When copying a large file over sftp over vsock, data size is usually 32kB, and kmalloc seems to fail to try to allocate 32 32kB regions. Call Trace: [<ffffffffb6a0df64>] dump_stack+0x97/0xdb [<ffffffffb68d6aed>] warn_alloc_failed+0x10f/0x138 [<ffffffffb68d868a>] ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x38/0xc8 [<ffffffffb664619f>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x84c/0x90d [<ffffffffb6646e56>] alloc_kmem_pages+0x17/0x19 [<ffffffffb6653a26>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x2b/0xdb [<ffffffffb66682f3>] __kmalloc+0x177/0x1f7 [<ffffffffb66e0d94>] ? copy_from_iter+0x8d/0x31d [<ffffffffc0689ab7>] vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick+0x1fa/0x301 [vhost_vsock] [<ffffffffc06828d9>] vhost_worker+0xf7/0x157 [vhost] [<ffffffffb683ddce>] kthread+0xfd/0x105 [<ffffffffc06827e2>] ? vhost_dev_set_owner+0x22e/0x22e [vhost] [<ffffffffb683dcd1>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xf3/0xf3 [<ffffffffb6eb332e>] ret_from_fork+0x4e/0x80 [<ffffffffb683dcd1>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xf3/0xf3 Work around by doing kvmalloc instead. Signed-off-by: Junichi Uekawa <uekawa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 2 +- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c index 368330417bde..5703775af129 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ vhost_vsock_alloc_pkt(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, return NULL; } - pkt->buf = kmalloc(pkt->len, GFP_KERNEL); + pkt->buf = kvmalloc(pkt->len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!pkt->buf) { kfree(pkt); return NULL; diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c index ec2c2afbf0d0..3a12aee33e92 100644 --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c @@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtio_transport_recv_pkt); void virtio_transport_free_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_pkt *pkt) { - kfree(pkt->buf); + kvfree(pkt->buf); kfree(pkt); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtio_transport_free_pkt); -- 2.37.3.998.g577e59143f-goog