As 'vnum' is controlled by user, so if user tries to allocate memory larger than(>=) MAX_ORDER, then kcalloc() will fail, it creates a stack trace and messes up dmesg with a warning. Add __GFP_NOWARN in order to avoid too large allocation warning. This is detected by static analysis using smatch. Fixes: c3e2fe9222d4 ("scsi: scsi_debug: Implement VERIFY(10), add VERIFY(16)") Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c index 697fc57bc711..cbb9395c90c1 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c @@ -4429,7 +4429,7 @@ static int resp_verify(struct scsi_cmnd *scp, struct sdebug_dev_info *devip) if (ret) return ret; - arr = kcalloc(lb_size, vnum, GFP_ATOMIC); + arr = kcalloc(lb_size, vnum, GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN); if (!arr) { mk_sense_buffer(scp, ILLEGAL_REQUEST, INSUFF_RES_ASC, INSUFF_RES_ASCQ); -- 2.38.1