From: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:55:55 +0200, James Gowans wrote:
> If a driver/subsystem tries to do an allocation after the memblock
> allocations have been freed and the memory handed to the buddy
> allocator, it will not actually be legal to use that allocation: the
> buddy allocator owns the memory. Currently this mis-use is handled by
> the memblock function which does allocations and returns virtual
> addresses by printing a warning and doing a kmalloc instead. However
> the physical allocation function does not to do this check - callers of
> the physical alloc function are unprotected against mis-use.
>
> [...]
Applied to for-next branch of memblock.git tree, thanks!
[1/1] memblock: Move late alloc warning down to phys alloc
commit: 94ff46de4a738e7916b68ab5cc0b0380729f02af
tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock
branch: for-next
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Sincerely yours,
Mike.
