The amount of pipe->buffers is basically controlled by userspace by fcntl(... F_SETPIPE_SZ ...) so it could be large. High order allocations could be slow (if memory is heavily fragmented) or may fail if the order is larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. Since the 'bufs' doesn't need to be physically contiguous, use the kvmalloc_array() to allocate memory. If high order page isn't available, the kvamalloc*() will fallback to 0-order. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fuse/dev.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fuse/dev.c b/fs/fuse/dev.c index 702592cce546..fd4a838c1673 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/dev.c +++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c @@ -1362,8 +1362,8 @@ static ssize_t fuse_dev_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, if (!fud) return -EPERM; - bufs = kmalloc_array(pipe->buffers, sizeof(struct pipe_buffer), - GFP_KERNEL); + bufs = kvmalloc_array(pipe->buffers, sizeof(struct pipe_buffer), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!bufs) return -ENOMEM; @@ -1396,7 +1396,7 @@ static ssize_t fuse_dev_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, for (; page_nr < cs.nr_segs; page_nr++) put_page(bufs[page_nr].page); - kfree(bufs); + kvfree(bufs); return ret; } @@ -1946,8 +1946,8 @@ static ssize_t fuse_dev_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, pipe_lock(pipe); - bufs = kmalloc_array(pipe->buffers, sizeof(struct pipe_buffer), - GFP_KERNEL); + bufs = kvmalloc_array(pipe->buffers, sizeof(struct pipe_buffer), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!bufs) { pipe_unlock(pipe); return -ENOMEM; @@ -2006,7 +2006,7 @@ static ssize_t fuse_dev_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, pipe_buf_release(pipe, &bufs[idx]); out: - kfree(bufs); + kvfree(bufs); return ret; } -- 2.16.4