2023-07-05 18:15 GMT+09:00, gaoming <gaoming20@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> The call stack shown below is a scenario in the Linux 4.19 kernel.
> Allocating memory failed where exfat fs use kmalloc_array due
> to system memory fragmentation, while the u-disk was inserted
> without recognition.
> Devices such as u-disk using the exfat file system are pluggable and may be
> insert into the system at any time.
> However, long-term running systems cannot guarantee the continuity of
> physical memory. Therefore, it's necessary to address this issue.
>
> Binder:2632_6: page allocation failure: order:4,
> mode:0x6040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null)
> Call trace:
> [242178.097582] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x4
> [242178.097589] dump_stack+0xf4/0x134
> [242178.097598] warn_alloc+0xd8/0x144
> [242178.097603] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1364/0x1384
> [242178.097608] kmalloc_order+0x2c/0x510
> [242178.097612] kmalloc_order_trace+0x40/0x16c
> [242178.097618] __kmalloc+0x360/0x408
> [242178.097624] load_alloc_bitmap+0x160/0x284
> [242178.097628] exfat_fill_super+0xa3c/0xe7c
> [242178.097635] mount_bdev+0x2e8/0x3a0
> [242178.097638] exfat_fs_mount+0x40/0x50
> [242178.097643] mount_fs+0x138/0x2e8
> [242178.097649] vfs_kern_mount+0x90/0x270
> [242178.097655] do_mount+0x798/0x173c
> [242178.097659] ksys_mount+0x114/0x1ac
> [242178.097665] __arm64_sys_mount+0x24/0x34
> [242178.097671] el0_svc_common+0xb8/0x1b8
> [242178.097676] el0_svc_handler+0x74/0x90
> [242178.097681] el0_svc+0x8/0x340
>
> By analyzing the exfat code,we found that continuous physical memory is
> not required here,so kvmalloc_array is used can solve this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: gaoming <gaoming20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/exfat/balloc.c | 4 ++--
> fs/exfat/dir.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/exfat/balloc.c b/fs/exfat/balloc.c
> index 9f42f25fab92..a183558cb7a0 100644
> --- a/fs/exfat/balloc.c
> +++ b/fs/exfat/balloc.c
> @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static int exfat_allocate_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,
> }
> sbi->map_sectors = ((need_map_size - 1) >>
> (sb->s_blocksize_bits)) + 1;
> - sbi->vol_amap = kmalloc_array(sbi->map_sectors,
> + sbi->vol_amap = kvmalloc_array(sbi->map_sectors,
> sizeof(struct buffer_head *), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!sbi->vol_amap)
> return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int exfat_allocate_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,
> while (j < i)
> brelse(sbi->vol_amap[j++]);
>
> - kfree(sbi->vol_amap);
> + kvfree(sbi->vol_amap);
> sbi->vol_amap = NULL;
> return -EIO;
> }
> diff --git a/fs/exfat/dir.c b/fs/exfat/dir.c
> index 957574180a5e..5cbb78d0a2a2 100644
> --- a/fs/exfat/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/exfat/dir.c
> @@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ int exfat_put_dentry_set(struct exfat_entry_set_cache
> *es, int sync)
> brelse(es->bh[i]);
>
> if (IS_DYNAMIC_ES(es))
> - kfree(es->bh);
> + kvfree(es->bh);
>
> return err;
> }
> @@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ int exfat_get_dentry_set(struct exfat_entry_set_cache
> *es,
>
> num_bh = EXFAT_B_TO_BLK_ROUND_UP(off + num_entries * DENTRY_SIZE, sb);
> if (num_bh > ARRAY_SIZE(es->__bh)) {
> - es->bh = kmalloc_array(num_bh, sizeof(*es->bh), GFP_KERNEL);
> + es->bh = kvmalloc_array(num_bh, sizeof(*es->bh), GFP_KERNEL);
Could you please elaborate why you change this to kvmalloc_array also?
Thanks.
> if (!es->bh) {
> brelse(bh);
> return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>
